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Juliet Stevenson admits Nicole Kidman annoyed her by claiming she popularised scientist’s story

English actor played Rosalind Franklin three decades before Hollywood star

The Independent UK

Just 3 Nobel Prizes cover all of science – how research is done today poses a challenge for these prestigious awards

I’ve been primarily an experimental chemist – the kind of person who goes into the laboratory and mixes and stirs chemicals – since the beginning of my career in 1965. Today, and for the past 15 years, I’m a full-time historian of chemistry.

The Conversation

Unravelling DNA's structure: a landmark achievement whose authors were not fairly credited

Seventy years ago, two male scientists, Francis Crick and James Watson, proclaimed they had discovered the secret of life: the structure of DNA. Since then, history has acknowledged how Rosalind Franklin was sidelined. But new archive evidence has cast doubt on the widely accepted narrative – that Franklin collected an…

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Rosalind Franklin's role in DNA discovery gets a new twist

The story of how scientists discovered DNA's shape may be getting another twist

The Independent UK

Academics find twist in tale of Rosalind Franklin, DNA and the double helix

Authors say scientist’s role was acknowledged at the time of discovery – contrary to popular narrative

The Guardian - UK

Rosalind Franklin knew DNA was a helix before Watson and Crick, unpublished material reveals

A new paper based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix.

LiveScience

Rosalind Franklin ‘was an equal contributor in the discovery of DNA structure’

Professors Matthew Cobb and Nathaniel Comfort said new evidence shows Franklin did not fail to understand her own data.

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30 amazing women in science and math

From the first woman to win a Nobel Prize to the discoverer of jumping genes, here are some of the women who have made major contributions to science and mathematics.

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