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Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin!

Her work was central to the understanding of the molecular structure of DNA. Though she was recognized for her other work in her time, her work on DNA was not appreciated until after her death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin

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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin's 1925 thesis that the sun was composed mostly of hydrogen and helium was rejected by a professor who called it "impossible". Years later, the man who rejected it realized she was in fact right, but he was credited with the discovery for decades. A prominent astronomer called her discovery "the most brilliant PhD thesis
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Important article that sets the record straight on Rosalind Franklin's role in the discovery of DNA as a double helix -- with significant new findings.

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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01313-5

What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure

Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.

^{Comfort, Nathaniel}