Rosalind Franklin was one of a quartet of people who were researching DNA in the 1950s. And she is popularly known…sort of.
“Since her early death at the age of 37, Rosalind Franklin has become mythologised as the victim of male prejudice, the unsung heroine who took the crucial X-ray photograph enabling James Watson and Francis Crick to build their double helix model of DNA, and was unjustly deprived of a Nobel Prize.”
A powerful story…but just a story.
“She would neither have recognised nor endorsed this soundbite description. Franklin regarded herself first and foremost not as a woman, but as a scientist, and her DNA research occupied a relatively brief period in her successful career working on a variety of topics. In particular, on top of her famous investigations into DNA, she also made foundational contributions to modern understandings of coal, graphite and viruses.”
Read about Franklin here.
(Picture from Wikipedia, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology • CC BY-SA 4.0)
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