10 Women That Everyone Should Know About
1. Rosalind Franklin
Many people haven’t heard of her, or did not know about her until college, and it’s sad because she is the reason we know what the structure of DNA looks like. Watson and Crick stole her x-rays for the structure, and used it so ‘they could be first’. She never received her Noble Prize for her discovery, because she lost her life before the ceremony and also because she was a woman. She still hasn’t received it.
2. Sophie Germain
This bada$$ French mathematician that lived in the 1800s had to publish all of her work under a male pseudonym because she could lose her life if the public knew she was a woman. She won a prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences, but couldn’t even attend the ceremony. She published work in number theory and elasticity.
3. Marian Diam...