Historians have long debated the role that Dr. Franklin played in identifying the double helix. A new opinion essay argues that she was an “equal contributor.”
Good Tuesday morning!
Nuclear talks begin in Vienna today, with diplomats from the U.K., France, Germany, Russia, China and Iran slated to hold a meeting chaired by the European Union. A U.S. delegation, headed by Special Envoy Rob Malley, will hold only indirect talks with Tehran.
Malley told NPR today that Iran has been “increasingly in noncompliance with their nuclear commitments,” and that Iran’s assertion that sanctions must be lifted before compliance is “not going to work that way.”
Israeli President Reuven Rivlinannounced today that he would hand the mandate to form the next government to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but declared that “no candidate has a realistic chance of forming a government that will have the confidence of the Knesset.”