Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) was an English physical chemist and crystallographer.
Her work was essentially used, without her permission, (some would and have said 'stolen') by her PI, who gave it to James Watson & Francis Crick. That work then formed a significant part of the basis of the Nobel Prize-winning model of DNA. The Prize was awarded after Franklin's death to Watson, Crick, and Franklin's PI. (The Nobel Prize is awarded to at most three scientists for a particular discovery, and only to living scientists, so Franklin was ineligible at any rate.) Watson continues, to this day, to minimize Franklin's work, although by all accounts she was only a month away from proving the structure of DNA herself, and her work was essential to Watson & Crick's proof. Crick repeatedly acknowledged the significance of her contribution, before his own death.
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