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Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin!

Rosalind Franklin’s research was crucial to discovering DNA’s double helix structure. But she never received proper acknowledgement for her contribution.

James Watson & Francis Crick were awarded the credit & Nobel Prize, but their work was only possible bc they saw her unpublished data & X-ray diffraction images. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/science/rosalind-franklin-dna.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #science #history #HistoryRemix

Untangling Rosalind Franklin’s Role in DNA Discovery, 70 Years On

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.”
Emily Anthes (The New York Times)
#science #history #historyremix
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Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson
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My kid chose to rename themself "Roz" in honor of Rosalind Franklin.
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lxsameer
lxsameer
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What a coincidence. I literally read about her today in a book. Too sad that she passed away before the Nobel Prize.
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RodneyPetersonTalentAgency
RodneyPetersonTalentAgency
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“Never received proper acknowledgement for her contribution.”

This certainly isn’t the first time, and definitely not limited to science.

It was Rita Coolidge who wrote the iconic piano ending in Layla, not Eric Clapton.

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Sheril Kirshenbaum
Sheril Kirshenbaum
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@RodneyPetersonTalent Sadly you’re right.

Just consider https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/109379733057460401

Sheril Kirshenbaum

2022-11-21 03:44:34


I bet you’ve heard of Galileo & Hubble, but what about Henrietta Swan Leavitt?

Leavitt changed astronomy. She figured out new ways to measure a star’s distance from Earth & her work helped determine the universe is expanding.

Her boss, Edward Pickering, published her findings UNDER HIS NAME. Later, Shapley used her findings to determine distances around the Milky Way w/o credit.

Leavitt’s work is still used today. Next time you hear about famous men in #science share her story. #HistoryRemix


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Guyamrllg
Guyamrllg
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and they saw it without her authorization...
I was just reading “The Gene” by Mukherjee on the topic.
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Karen Campe
Karen Campe
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I recently read "The Exceptions: Sixteen Brilliant Women at MIT and the Fight for Equality in Science" which includes Rosalind Franklin's story.
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Barry Centricsubdivision
Barry Centricsubdivision
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A huge injustice. Only 10 days since the 80th birthday of Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who was also "overlooked" by the Nobel committee following her discovery of pulsars. 😕
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tultican
tultican
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She was the true scientist who correctly describe DNA first. The boys stole from her work and Linus Pauling's to take undeserved credit.
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David Reinertson
David Reinertson
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there is kind of an inverse story about Lisa Meitner and Otto Hahn discovering fission. in that case, Lisa Meitner did the theoretical work, while Otto Hahn did the laboratory part.
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WestSideTony
WestSideTony
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Saw a play based on her time researching DNA at a small theatre in Chicago, it was a great production with historical insight.
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Jeff McFadden
Jeff McFadden
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The first person to ever demonstrate that CO2 trapped heat in the atmosphere was a woman, Eunice Newton Foote. And her work was published.
Beat *all* the guys.
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Fischerli
Fischerli
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I wish I could say this surprises me, but as a 60 year old woman I've seen way too may men take credit for women's unattributed work. If Grace Hopper hadn't been such a badass her work would have been dismissed as well.

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