What? You think DNA/RNA was unravelled by Francis Crick and James Watson? Think again, brother (sisters prob'bly already know) that they took much of her work and which has been historically represented as their own, winning the Nobel Prize. Say it loud and say it strong: Rosalind Franklin is the unsung hero of DNA/RNA researach.
from "A Doubly Twisted String with a Million Knots" in Femme Magnifique (Hi-Fi Academy Press, September 2017), script by Mike Carey, pencils and inks by Ευγενία Κουμάκη as Eugenia Koumaki, colors by Hi-Fi, letter by Aditya Bidikar
Kate Beaton sez it even more pointedly:
"Every Lady Scientist Who Ever Did Anything Till Now" in Hark! A Vagrant (Drawn + Quarterly, September 2011), by Kate Beaton
Happy birthday, Rosalind.
from Femme Magnifique
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If you could see her name without singing it to the tune of Sesame Street’s “Roosevelt Franklin” song, well, you can’t anymore…
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