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Rosalind Franklin’s research was crucial to discovering DNA’s double helix structure 🧬 but it was James Watson & Francis Crick who received the credit & Nobel Prize.

Unknown to Franklin, the pair saw her unpublished data & X-ray diffraction images, inspiring their model. They never acknowledged her contribution until after her death.

How many discoveries & innovations of #women do we attribute to the men who took credit for their ideas?

theconversation.com/sexism-pus… #history #science #HistoryRemix

Rosalind Franklin at age 25. Elliott & Fry/National Portrait Gallery, London.

Sexism pushed Rosalind Franklin toward the scientific sidelines during her short life, but her work still shines on her 100th birthday

Franklin was born a century ago, and her X-ray crystallography work crucially contributed to determining the structure of DNA.
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Belafon
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Belafon
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Start with Emmy Northern. And then go look up rejectedprincesses.com.
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TransitionState
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TransitionState
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Franklin was an absolutely brilliant experimentalist but this common take seems unfair. Her contributions were in fact acknowledged early on -- Watson was the first to suggest she should have shared in the Nobel and she became close with Crick. But her bosses at MRC were frustrated because she refused to model, and in fact she even made fun of Wilkins for proposing a helical structure. Her data were essential, she was brilliant, and I can't imagine the prejudice against women...
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Sheril Kirshenbaum
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Rosalind Franklin update!

“A new paper based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix.”

livescience.com/health/genetic… #HistoryRemix #history #science /2


Rosalind Franklin knew DNA was a helix before Watson and Crick, unpublished material reveals

Jennifer Nalewicki (Live Science)
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Flora Graham
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I think "a new paper confirms" is a misstatement. This Comment is an opinion piece, not a peer-reviewed paper. Still a very cool story ☺️
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Steve Cromwell
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Reminds me of this joke:

Lecturer: What did Watson & Crick discover?
Woman in audience: Rosalind Franklin’s notebook

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cui bono, baby.
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cui bono, baby.
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I remember my mother, a microbiologist, insisting this was the case 50 years ago.
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Steven Molnar
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Steven Molnar
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Knowing it's a helix is not the same as understanding the double-helix structure. In fact, I believe Linus Pauling beat Crick and Watson to publication with a paper incorrectly showing it to be a triple helix. This article lacks clarity a bit.
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Sheril Kirshenbaum
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Wow. Did OpenAI really just name their new biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin… to support other people’s research? 🙄
Open AI’s new tool: “Introducing GPT-Rosalind, our frontier reasoning, model built to support research across biology, drug discovery, and translational medicine…..”
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Simon B
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they totally know what they are doing here, it's deliberate 🙁
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It's ironic, as a technology functioning entirely by stealing other people's work it would have been perfectly named after Watson and Crick. @Sheril
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up next, a theoretical physics model called Marić and an astrophysics model called Bell
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COMPLETE lack of self-awareness is a CORE characteristic of the #MAGA cult and its endemic #TrumpDerangementSyndrome. So, yes, this is totally in sync with the global theft of #IntellectualProperty at the foundation of the #AI bubble. ✅
#AI #maga #trumpderangementsyndrome #intellectualproperty
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Havyhh2
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men can't handle the truth.....in millions of examples such as this superb achievement by a female scientist

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