Inspirerende kvinder
Historien om 5 kvinder og deres utrolige opfindelser
Their amazing stories …and the men who stole all the credit.
Rosalind Franklin
Hvis du var opmærksom i din biologiklasse på gymnasiet, husker du sikkert navnene Watson og Crick. Det var dem, der vandt Nobelprisen i medicin i 1962 for at modellere strukturen af DNA-molekylet og forklare, hvordan formen egner sig til replikation. Sagen er den, at de stjal æren fra en kvinde ved navn Rosalind Franklin.
Disse mænd var hendes medarbejdere, som ikke kunne lide hende. De mente, at kvinder skulle være assistenter, ikke videnskabsmænd. I de tider måtte kvinder ikke komme ind i cafeteriet og blev tvunget til at forlade bygningen under frokosten (så mænd kunne få deres fyretid, går jeg ud fra), og i den tid stjal Watson og Crick Rosalinds sedler og tog derefter æren for hendes opdagelser.
Modløst underskrev hun sine rettigheder til at fortsætte med at arbejde på DNA, så hun kunne komme ud af sin arbejdskontrakt og flytte til en anden by, og lægge dette forræderi bag sig. Da "The Double Helix" blev skrevet, blev Franklin portrætteret nærmest som en skurk i bogen. Watson beskriver hende som en "krigerisk, følelsesladet kvinde, der ikke er i stand til at fortolke sine egne data."
Selvom hun fortsatte med at gøre vigtige opdagelser om vira, der lagde grundlaget for moderne virologi, er det først i det sidste årti, at Franklins bidrag er blevet anerkendt og hædret. Selvom du måske ikke har brugt hendes opdagelser direkte, har du denne opdagelse at takke for mange livsforbedrende (og kriminalitetsløsende) fremskridt. I dag er der mange nye faciliteter, stipendier og forskningsstipendier – især dem til kvinder – opkaldt til hendes ære.
Cindy Frazier
Maria Beasley is a life saver. Thanks to you, you saved a lot of lives!
Karla Alvarez
I will let my daughter read this. This should be at school too. A lot of people doesn’t have any idea who these women are, and men are underestimating women. This is a proof that women are not that easy.
Kelly Osborne
Informative article. Keep posting articles like this because we learn a lot from this. Some of these can’t be taught at school.
Myron Stephens
Women of Ancient Mesopotamia?? They are the inventors of the beer?!! Hail to them!!
Jodi Thornton
Those men should’ve known better! They took a big piece of those women’s lives! Let’s all be aware on who invented these amazing things. Thank you to those women who shared their ideas to the world. They could have improved their lives and lived it easy if those men didn’t steal their inventions.
Marsha Reed
There should be more originality in people. They need to stop stealing ideas.
Maggie Lawrence
I didn’t know this until today. Honesty is the best policy.
Lydia Erickson
At least we all know now that those ideas weren’t from those men.
Patricia Mann
They just oppressed these women because of their lack in decency!
Maxine Hanson
It’s so hard to be original nowadays as other people may have had that idea already. But then directly stealing other people’s ideas whilst fully aware that you are about to steal them is a different story.?
Catherine Lewis
Those men just ranaway with the money those women deserved. Sometimes it’s not even just because of money, it’s the act itself that’s disappointing!
Bernadette Garza
Wow, that’s a lame move. Women are so creative that men had to steal their ideas.
Pam Reyes
Isn’t it easier to be nice? And just acknowledge good deeds and not steal people’s ideas? I don’t get it.
Michele Adkins
Their ideas were awesome in general, which is why those men felt the need to steal their inventions.
Tara Norman
Now we know what they did and that’s even funnier.
Myra Sullivan
Informative stuff! Some of us need to be aware that this still happens nowadays.
Terri Ferguson
It does and it’s really sad that we keep on going back to the roots of evil. Just sad.