[enziobodoni]

As someone who got my PhD in Roger Tsien's lab at that time and attended the Nobel ceremony, I strongly agree with this comment, that it was no one's intent. Many people interpret this story as though Tsien or Chalfie stole something from Doug Prasher, which isn't true. This is more a story that science is hard, people don't always follow through on projects, and there is also some luck involved. There are plenty of "fourth" people who didn't get Nobel Prizes.

[jpmattia]

> There are plenty of "fourth" people who didn't get Nobel Prizes.

It would make for an interesting topic of its own. I know at least two myself.

[untilHellbanned]

I agree this "forgotten wo/men" would make a great blog. Important in science, startups, athletics, essentially every competitive endeavor.

[gmarx]

The the woman who grew the DNA crystals that enabled Watson and Crick to do their model. Almost all scientific progress is an extended team effort both laterally and vertically in time. You have the draw the line somewhere. If they gave each prize to 100s of people, we would lose interest. They also don't award it posthumously

[frandroid]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin