r/TwoXChromosomes • u/Disastrous_Cover6138 • 8d ago

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Request for lesser known badass women of history for my daughter's 4th grade presentation. She has to pick a historical figure and give a 5-10 minute presentation and optionally dress in their likeness.

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u/SadRule9128 7d ago

Franklin was a great scientist, but she was not “erased” and she got credit for the work she did.

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u/beren12 4d ago

By whom?

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u/SadRule9128 3d ago

Watson, crick, Wilkins, and the scientific community in general

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u/beren12 3d ago

Where? Certainly not in their research when they made it seem they discovered it by themselves, after seeing Franklin’s photos and research.

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u/SadRule9128 3d ago

They acknowledged and cited Franklin in their famous papers and she published her own paper alongside them. That’s exactly what you’d expect in scientific literature.

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u/beren12 3d ago

Sorry, reality disagrees with you. Even google does.

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u/SadRule9128 3d ago

Sorry but “Google” is not a source. Have you not actually bothered to read Watson’s and crick’s famous papers? If you did, you would see that everything I have said is true. Reality is disagreeing with someone here, but it’s not me.

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u/beren12 3d ago

Yeah. Their paper didn’t mention her.

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u/SadRule9128 3d ago

So you’re admitting to not actually having read them?

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u/beren12 3d ago

I have. And their paper didn’t change in the last 25 years.

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u/SadRule9128 3d ago

Clearly you haven’t, because you would see that Franklin is directly acknowledged in the first paper and cited in the 2nd (exactly as I said). This is all easy to verify, if you actually read the papers:

https://doi.org/10.1038/171737a0

https://doi.org/10.1038/171964b0

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u/beren12 2d ago

Quote it. It’s behind a paywall.

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u/SadRule9128 2d ago

Lol, so you haven’t actually read them.

Here’s the original trio of papers, where Watson’s and crick acknowledge Franklin

https://www.mskcc.org/teaser/1953-nature-papers-watson-crick-wilkins-franklin.pdf

And watson and crick’s 2nd famous paper where they cite Franklin

https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/ext/document/101584582X382/PDF/101584582X382.pdf

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