Hi everyone !
When you think women in chemestry the first that you tought it's Marie Curi, I bet you. But not, today I'm not going to talk about her, instead of, I will present you Rosalind Franklin, who was a very smart person, even considerate the most importat woman to the modern sciencie, but never given enough credit.
Rosalind Franklin was born in 1920 in London, England. At the edge of 15 she already demonstrated a lot of talent in chemistry, biology and physics, but she was very criticize for the society only for the fact that she was a woman. Even so, she studied chesmistry and physics in Cambridge University. A couple of years later, she began to work as investigator in King's College from London, here Franklin was part of a DNA proyect where she discovered the structure of DNA, but the sad part is that this descoverd was stolen from her, 'cause her work partner tooked the photo that tested the DNA structure and showed to another scientist who used her photo to publish the discovered without given credits to Rosalind (even they won a noble prize because of her) 5 years more latter, she died from cancer without recognition.
I choose her 'cause a few years ago I readed her history and make me feel very angry and sad 'cause she did a big discovered and was stolen from her, like a said it before, she died ingloriously, without the recognitions that she deserved, so this post goes in memory of her and all of the science women that don't recive enough credit for their work.
It is not the first nor the last time it happens.
ResponderBorrarDo you know who is Jocelyn Bell ?
She discovered the first radio signal from a pulsar, but recognition of this discovery was for Antony Hewish, his tutor, and even won the Nobel Prize in Physics for it.
Amazing, I always though that the discoverers were Watson and Crick,
ResponderBorrarAmazing, I always though that the discoverers were Watson and Crick,
ResponderBorrarWow I never heard about Rosalind and her history-investigation. Nice blog Carla ^^
ResponderBorraris so sad that she does'nt had the recognition that she deserve.. nice blog:)
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ResponderBorrarI know something about it, this sucks that she doesn't have the recognition that she deserves