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Secret of Photo 51
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Secret of Photo 51 homepage

Web Site Credits

 

TV Program Credits

Lauren Aguirre, Executive Editor
Rebecca Deusser, Intern
Rick Groleau, Managing Editor
Brenden Kootsey, Senior Web Developer
Lexi Krock, Assistant Editor
Lingi Liu, Assitant Designer
Peter Tyson, Editor in Chief
Anya Vinokour, Senior Designer

Special Thanks
Bruce Birren, Whitehead Institute
Evelyn Fox Keller, MIT
Gary Glassman, Providence Pictures
George Johnson, The New York Times
Stephen C. Harrison, Harvard University
Shana Kelley, Boston College

Photo and Image Credits 
Secret of Photo 51 homepage—Photos: (Franklin) © Rachel Glaeser/American Society for Microbiology; (X-ray) © Franklin, R. and Gosling, R.G./Nature

Before Watson and Crick—Photos: (Watson and Crick, Schrödinger, DNA) © Corbis Images; (Miescher) © Friedrich Miescher Institute

Defending Franklin's Legacy—Photos: (Franklin portrait) © Novartis Foundation; (DNA) © WGBH/NOVA; (Franklin in lab) © Rachel Glaeser/American Society for Microbiology; (Watson) © Corbis Images; (Elkin) Courtesy of Lynne Elkin

Picturing the Molecules of Life—Photos: (1952) © Franklin, R. and Gosling, R.G./Nature; (1973, 1984) Courtesy of Shana Kelley, Boston College; (1979, 1980) © Protein Data Bank; (2001) © Center for Molecular Biology of RNA, UC-Santa Cruz

Anatomy of Photo 51—Photo: © Franklin, R. and Gosling, R.G./Nature; Illustrations: © WGBH/NOVA

Journey into DNA—Illustrations: © WGBH/NOVA

T.V. Program Description—Photo: (DNA) © WGBH/NOVA

 

Narrated by
Sigourney Weaver

Written, Produced and Directed by
Gary Glassman

Edited by
Gary Glassman

Associate Producer
Caroline Toth

Music
Ed Tomney

Consultant
Brenda Maddox

Additional Editing and Producing
Daniel McCabe

Camera
Dominic DeSantis
Ned Burgess
Mark Daniels
Michael Chin

Sound Recordists
Xavier Griette
André Rigaut
Steve Bores
Gabriel Monts

Animation
John Biafore

Assistant Editor
Mark Gottlieb

Online Editor and Colorist
Mike Dawson

Audio Mix
John Jenkins

Sound Design and Editing
Heart Punch Studios

Production Assistance
Jim Atkins
Jennifer Callahan
Elizabeth Nicole Gamer
Camille Meyer

RECREATIONS

Crew

Nancy King, Production Manager

Marilyn Salvatore, Costume Designer

Tom Walden, Production Designer

Anne Mulhall, Casting, LDI Casting

Nicky Pleau, Hair and Make-up

Red Herring, Lighting Equipment

David Rotondo, Model Builder

Principals

Leah Serinsky as Rosalind Franklin

Sophie Tezenas as Rosalind Franklin

Manya Branham Glassman as young Rosalind Franklin

Daniel Kirby as James Watson

Christopher Wall as Francis Crick

Patrick Dougherty as Maurice Wilkins

Ryan Culligan as Raymond Gosling

Thomas Norton as Lawrence Bragg

Walter Cotter as JT Randall

Special thanks to all those who made the recreations possible


Archival Material
Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, Oregon State University Library
American Society for Microbiology Archive
BBC Worldwide
CELLS alive!
Churchill Archive
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archive
Franklin Family
Getty Images
Rachel Glaeser
Harvard University Archives
ITN
King's College London Archive
Special Collections Department at Leeds University Library
Vittorio Luzzati
NATURE
National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division
National Portrait Gallery, London
The New York Times
Nobel Foundation
Novartis Foundation, formerly the Ciba Foundation
PATHÉ ARCHIVES
Photo Researchers, Inc.
RETNA
Rockefeller Archive Center
Valerie Sutton-Mattocks
Sveriges Television
University of Pennsylvania Archives
The Whipple Museum of the History of Science

 

Special Thanks
Helen Berman
Brown University
Carolyn Cohen, Brandeis University
DEXCO Inc. Vernon, CT, Flanders, NJ
Anne Fausto Sterling, Brown University
John Finch
Jenifer Franklin Glynn
Mike Fuller
Stephen Harrison
Ken Holmes
Victor McElheny
Medical Research Council, Laboratory for Molecular Biology
Trinity Repertory Theater
Scott Turner, Brown University
University of Rhode Island Department of Biological Sciences

NOVA Series Graphics
National Ministry of Design

NOVA Theme
Mason Daring
Martin Brody
Michael Whalen

Post Production Online Editor
Mark Steele

Closed Captioning
The Caption Center

NOVA Administrator
Queene Coyne

Publicity
Jonathan Renes
Diane Buxton

Senior Researcher
Ethan Herberman

Production Coordinator
Linda Callahan

Unit Manager
Holly Archibald

Paralegal
Nancy Marshall

Legal Counsel
Susan Rosen Shishko

Post Production Assistant
Patrick Carey

Associate Producer, Post Production
Nathan Gunner

Post Production Supervisor
Regina O'Toole

Post Production Editor
Rebecca Nieto

Producers, Special Projects
Lisa Mirowitz
Stephen Sweigart

Coordinating Producer
Laurie Cahalane

Supervising Producer
Lisa D'Angelo

Senior Science Editor
Evan Hadingham

Senior Series Producer
Melanie Wallace

Managing Director
Alan Ritsko

Executive Producer
Paula S. Apsell

   

A NOVA Production by Providence Pictures, Inc. for WGBH/Boston in association with the BBC, France 2, Multimedia France Productions and Centre National de la Cinématographie.

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