Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) was an English physical chemist and crystallographer.
Her X-ray crystallographic work modeling DNA 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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