Fascinating insight into a page of 'scientific discovery' and its history. Thank you for this insightful commentary. There are so many female, unsung and unrecognized hero's of history, that should be taught in school. Definitely, we still live in a very much, perhaps too much, male-dominated world. We need to give the human race, half of the human race, role models to emulate and follow!
You have a good sentiment, but I dont think it was worded as nicely. We don't need to give people role models to follow, we need to stop erasing history for political and personal beliefs.
That's a lie. Gosling was her student and they both worked on the image which had an exposure of over 60 hours so it was not exactly a snapshot! She published jointly with Gosling. She never minimized nor denied his contribution, and he never claimed she did either.
@Richard-hv5hh wrong. Her male PhD student took the photo and she presented it to James Watson and Maurice Wilkins who at the time were working on a diagram of DNA. The photo was helpful as it helped discover the nuclei were located on the outside of the fibres not the inside, but she did not take the photo.
@PMCFrontLines Wrong again. Both Rosalind and Gosling are credited with the photo everywhere. It was Gosling who showed the photo to Wilkins. Rosalind had asked him to do that.
