Today’s #WomensHistoryMonth highlight: Rosalind Franklin, pioneer discoverer of the double
Today’s #WomensHistoryMonth highlight: Rosalind Franklin, pioneer discoverer of the double helix structure in DNA strands. Her colleagues James Watson and Francis Crick, however, gained full credit of her work involving X-ray diffraction studies and excluded her recognition in their Nobel Prize winning paper. And to gain an idea of how misogynistic these fucks where: “Rosy might have been quite stunning had she taken even a mild interest in clothes,” Watson notes in his memoir, The Double Helix. #mansplainers #boybye #RoslinFranklin #HerStory #WomeninTheSciences -- source link
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