Rosalind franklin

While Polish-French Marie Curie had no trouble earning respect and recognition for her work, English chemist Rosalind Franklin had to fight for it all. On the other hand, several books, published by his closest collaborators, detail that he had a combative attitude and suggest that he was even haughty at times.

However, his work tells us otherwise.

Although he contributed new and important methods to the laboratories of the University of London in which he worked, techniques learned from the French master of X-ray crystallography, Jacques Mering, had some friction because the director of the laboratory did not organize his staff well at the time to incorporate his new partner.

Surely she was discriminated against for being a woman. However, he gave as much as he received, often discrediting his peers and those around him. On the other hand, it is indisputable that in part she also had some guilt for her attitude …

Of course, Franklin only received recognition for the work he did posthumously.

The X-ray diffusion techniques he learned in the French laboratory led his assistant, Raymond Gosling, to capture the most impressive image of the helical shape of DNA. However, it was James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins who shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery.

Rosalind got hers, but in the end. To know how, you will have to know its entire history …Rosalind franklin