Back before Open Diary died (and was then reborn in a cave 3 days later), I wrote a piece titled “100 Best Innovations By Women”.  It was a frivolous piece about an innovation in scrapbooking.

I have since learned about women such as Rosalind Franklin.  She was a chemist in England during the Second World War, and served on the British Coal Utilization Research Association.  Among her many skill was that she was adept at x-ray crystallography.  That skill led to her discovery of the helical nature of the DNA molecule, which model had eluded Watson and Crick and for which Watson took full credit in receiving the Nobel Prize for Rosalind Franklin’s discovery.

I am not fully anti-Watson.  Franklin was a bit of a bitch.  Her manner, in dealing with male counterparts (who were often offended by her superior knowledge and acumen), led to hostilities).  If I had been Watson, I probably been just as big an asshole as he was.  It was a half century ago.  Guys were jerks!  What can I say?

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