They are practically scrapping the bottom of the barrel for women scientists to name things after. Soon we will have the Ms. Candy Kane orbiter (it's named after a stripper that the head of the ESA had an illegitimate child with).
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She was jewish. and she didn't do shit.
Visionary scientist? Bullshit.
Visionary scientist? Bullshit.
Yeah, basically, there has been a big push for awhile to make it like she discovered the helix structure of DNA (and not Watson and Crick). She died trying to treat her own cancer too, if I remember correctly.
Any time I hear stories like that, it makes me think it was her “jewish retirement” — so as to discourage people from seeking safer cancer treatments than chemo.
No, I think she really had ovarian cancer, caught it early but did nothing to treat it for years, and then died a very painful death while using homeopathy to treat it once it was too late. She wasn't a famous or important scientist, her only note was that some of her pictures were cited by Watson and Crick, and since they've long since fallen out of favor, they are desperately trying to rewrite history.
i had a genetics class in college that had the story in the book.
watson and crick were asking her to do some xray crystallography for them and they noticed the helix in one of her images that was lying around. she didnt realize what was on the film, but wouldve figured it out with a bit of work. they knew what it was when they saw it and basically snatched her discovery from under her nose. way it goes in science, especially for the research dicks trying to make names for themselves.
her major claim to fame is discovery of transposons (jumping genes) from her corn research.
the inca had a myth that man was made from corn, and here she was figuring out dna manipulation while doing research on corn.
watson and crick were asking her to do some xray crystallography for them and they noticed the helix in one of her images that was lying around. she didnt realize what was on the film, but wouldve figured it out with a bit of work. they knew what it was when they saw it and basically snatched her discovery from under her nose. way it goes in science, especially for the research dicks trying to make names for themselves.
her major claim to fame is discovery of transposons (jumping genes) from her corn research.
the inca had a myth that man was made from corn, and here she was figuring out dna manipulation while doing research on corn.
@Elliptica nah they still haven't named anything after that chick who wrote comments in the planet search codebase and got accolades for it