ROSALIND FRANKLIN

Rosalind Franklin is one of the worlds most famous female scientists, it is because of her James Watson and Francis Crick were able to confirm their theory that DNA is structured in a double helix formation. Franklin graduated Cambridge University as a chemistry graduate. To discover the formation of DNA Franklin worked with Maurice Wilkins, to him Franklin wasn't his peer, she was a woman, thus in a lower rank to him. The two never had a good relationship. It was when Franklin made crystallographic portraits of DNA that the race was truly on, she was extremely close the figuring out the whole DNA formation herself. It was now that Wilkins showed her work to James Watson, the answer to the puzzle was immediately obvious to him; he and Crick had the exact theory that she was trying to prove.

I believe that Franklin should have received more credit for her work, it is possible that because she was a woman she wouldn't be considered for a Nobel Prize. Yes, Watson and Crick put all the pieces of the puzzle together, however, it was Franklin that discovered the formation of DNA, therefore she should be credited for the research, if Watson and Crick hadn't been shown Franklin's crystallographic portraits Franklin would have figured out the formation on her own, and would have been credited entirely for the research.
ROSALIND FRANKLIN

Rosalind Franklin is one of the worlds most famous female scientists, it is because of her James Watson and Francis Crick were able to confirm their theory that DNA is structured in a double helix formation. Franklin graduated Cambridge University as a chemistry graduate. To discover the formation of DNA Franklin worked with Maurice Wilkins, to him Franklin wasn't his peer, she was a woman, thus in a lower rank to him. The two never had a good relationship. It was when Franklin made crystallographic portraits of DNA that the race was truly on, she was extremely close the figuring out the whole DNA formation herself. It was now that Wilkins showed her work to James Watson, the answer to the puzzle was immediately obvious to him; he and Crick had the exact theory that she was trying to prove.

I believe that Franklin should have received more credit for her work, it is possible that because she was a woman she wouldn't be considered for a Nobel Prize. Yes, Watson and Crick put all the pieces of the puzzle together, however, it was Franklin that discovered the formation of DNA, therefore she should be credited for the research, if Watson and Crick hadn't been shown Franklin's crystallographic portraits Franklin would have figured out the formation on