[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

[mikeyouse]

I didn't realize she had died so young (only 37 years old).. I can't imagine the volume of potential work that was lost with her passing.