If it wasn't for Rosalind Franklin, the concept of DNA is something that I honestly think would have not been discovered. She seemed to be a woman that was really dedicated to her work. She was someone that really cared about her research and let nothing get in her way of her studies. I hate to admit that during the time, this brilliant mind was discovering something that got put on the map, society was more of a dominant man thing. Hearing a woman playing a role as a leader in anything was viewed as absurd to the make crowd.
She was taken away from something she managed to spend hours on and got no credit for it. Instead others who acted as if they were in a team with her, used her data for their own benefit and became popular taking all the credit Franklin was suppose to have. To me that is just sick, not only being a female myself but morally that's just wrong for anyone to do to others and completely unethical. It is a shame that all that hard work put into something that became to be so amazing, was congratulated to the man that robbed her idea and she had to sit back and take the mental abuse.
I'm sure there are other scientist currently who spend many hours in the lab and are not recognized for all the work they put into the matter however, I hope they do have the option to speak up and hold on to all the accomplishes they have made and have to not go through what Rosalind Franklin went through. She is someone special who has made an amazing contribution within the science field and without her findings, I'm sure DNA would probably not be the way it is today.
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