Rosalind Elsie Franklin

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Rosalind Elsie Franklin

• Womens hidden work

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Introduction

• Womens work has been ignored for a lot of
  centuries. Even though, we live in a society
  where women are as intelligent as men, but in
  spite of that, we should fight hard to end up
  with sexism.
• Even though nowadays women dont get these
  abuses, we dont have to forget ancient stories,
  because we can learn from them.
• These theses are going to report an important
  subject The womens hidden work, along to the
  history of the humanity, like Rosalind
  Franklin, who was deceived by Watson and Crick.

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• Rosalind Elsie Franklin was born in
• Nothing Hill, in London, in 25 July 1920.

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Her father didnt want any university studies for
women, so he didnt give her any money, but she
could go to school because her aunt would pay it.

• After the High School, Rosalind went to Cambridge
  University. She passed her finals in 1941, but
  she was only awarded a degree titular, because
  she was a woman.

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• By 1951 Rosalind started working at Kings
  College London in medical investigation (MRC).
  Her director directed her work to DNA fibres.
  They discovered two forms of DNA thanks to the
  manipulation of hydration of specimens
• Firstly, DNA B is produced when it there is a
  high humidity and the DNA fibbers became long and
  thin.
• Secondly, DNA A is produced when it is dried and
  the DNA fibers became short and fat.
• This discovery was done by Franklin and Wilkins
  but they had a conflict and they divided the work
  on DNA Franklin chose DNA B, and Wilkins
  selected DNA A.

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• Rosalind got a photograph (whose name is 51
  photograph) about x-ray diffraction which
  revealed the spiral structure of DNA, and was
  very important for Watson y Crick.

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• By 1953 January she started to write a series of
  3 drafts, 2 of which included a double helical
  DNA backbone.
• Her two manuscripts of A DNA form were completed
  one day before Crick and Watson had finished
  their model. Certainly they had written it after
  she had shown them her work.
• Rosalind had evidence with her cautious approach
  with her work, but she did not hesitate to
  publish her preliminaries ideas and Watson and
  Crick to take her preliminary ideas, and they
  published the Double Helix.
• Finally most scientists accepted the Double
  Helix to Watson and Crick, and they got the
  Nobel Prize in 1962.

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• Rosalind had two tumours in her abdomen, in spite
  of her cancer, she continued her work until April
  1958, when she died.

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• Finally, when Rosalind Franklin had just died,
  Crick recognised Rosalinds work, and admitted
  that if Rosalind had never shown him her work,
  they would never have discovered the structure of
  DNA.

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• When Watson and Crick met Rosalind, they tossed
  for going out with Rosalind, and it wasnt
  because she was ugly, but because she lived in a
  very sexist society, and when a woman was
  studying or was having her own ideas, she was a
  very strange woman, and all men had a bad point
  of view about her. Finally, this woman died
  without her family because of rejection.

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Artemisia Gentileschi
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• Artemisias father imposed her a master, who
  raped her. Moreover, her father signs her
  pictures and he was paid for them.
• Artemisia suffered a lot when she had to declared
  that she had been raped by Tassi (her master), as
  she had been tortured in her fingers, her most
  important instrument.

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• Finally, Artemisia told the next declaration
• He locked the room and once he closed she threw
  me to a side of the bed putting his hands on my
  chest, put a knee between the thighs so I
  couldnt close them, and raising the clothes,
  which found it hard, he put a hand with a
  handkerchief in the throat and mouth so I
  couldnt shout and having done this he put both
  knees between my legs and pointing with his
  member at my nature he began to push a and he
  introduced it inside. And I scratched his face
  and I pulled his hair and before he introduced
  inside, I seized it and extracted a chunk of
  meat. And I scratched his face and I pulled his
  hair and before he introduced inside, I seized it
  and extracted a chunk of meat.

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• Fortunately, Artemisia married a nice man (who
  was painter) and they had a peaceful life

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• Judith beheading Holofernes

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Sophie Germain
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• She was a mathematician and physicist, and as
  other women, she was discredited for her parents
  and society, so she has a difficult childhood,
  due to her sex. For this reason, Sophie said that
  her name was Antoine-August Le Blanc. In spite of
  her situation, she got an excellent prize and she
  was the first woman that got it, so she could
  have correspondence with famous mathematicians
  such us Legrange, Legendre or Gauss. Moreover,
  Sophie contributed with ideas about the
  flexibility which helped to the construction of
  Eiffel Tower, but her name does not appear
  anywhere. Furthermore, she might have saved the
  Gauss life, because she made her fathers friend
  protected him during a war.

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Authoresses
IES GINER DE LOS RIOS Motril
2010

• Ágata Michot Roberto
• Elia Mercado Palomino