'Luck Goes Both Ways' by Pam Makin

That was it! Science is 90% monotony, 10% luck, and this was my lucky day. The answer was staring up from beneath the microscope. It was obvious now, in the sketches, the equations. All alone in the lab, I could keep it quiet until I published.

I didn’t know the committee existed until I was summoned to defend myself. A hearing of the Rosalind Franklin Integrity Committee was asking me about the process leading to the discovery. I didn’t say “I found a notebook beside a microscope and had an epiphany.” But they knew anyway. That was it.