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Inspirational women: Rosalind Franklin

  • Alice Dillon
  • Mar 9, 2017
  • 2 min read

Hello everyone!

Today i've decided to do a post on Rosalind Franklin, a scientist who provided crucial evidence for the discovery of DNA. I chose Rosalind Franklin because she was an incredible Chemist/X-ray Crystallographer with a brilliant mind and didn't get half the credit she deserves for her discovery. As we all know the discovery of DNA was meant to have been made by James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins but recent evidence suggests that this is not the case.

Franklin produced the first high resolution photos of crystalized DNA fibers from this evidence she worked out what the basic dimensions of DNA strands as well as working out the structure to be a helix. She was working in the same lab as Maurice Wilkins another scientist who was working on the DNA case with Watson and Crick, who had firstly thought she had been hired to be his assistant (so it wasn't the best start to their relationship).It's believed that it was Wilkins who presented Franklin's findings to Watson and Crick, Frankin had given a lecture prior to this on her discoveries at Kings College which Watson attended but he claimed not be paying much attention. Watson, Crick and Wilkins went on to recieve the Nobel prize in Physiology and Medicine for the discovery of the stucture for DNA.

Whether you believe she should have recieved all the credit or part of the credit at least, I think she deserves some kind of recognition for being an woman who achieved amazing things in a truly male dominated career at the time.

I decided to do a double helix made up of the symbol for women as a small tribute, to a woman's massive discovery.

Equipment used : Hi-Tecpoint fineliner (0.5), Letraset Promarkers.


 
 
 

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