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Rosalind Darwin

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Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton faced challenges in their respective research as a result of religious and cultural beliefs of the time influencing their work, but there is another individual who faced different issues that influenced their research. It is fairly well known that James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA, but it is not as commonly known that an individual by the name of Rosalind Franklin also played a key role in this research. Rosalind Franklin had been trying to uncover the secrets of DNA during the same time as Watson and Crick and she actually quite close to figuring it out. At the time she didn’t quite realize what she had and if she did than it would have most certainly been her who would have been credited with the research. It wasn’t until Watson and Crick were shown Franklin’s research that they were able to pull ahead and fully figure out the structure of DNA. It was said that “while Rosalind’s work was fundamental to the discovery, she had not been consulted on its use”, meaning that she did a large part of the work and someone else was given the credit (Maddox). Showing them the progress made by Franklin was done without their permission. Franklin contributed a large part to the research done on the structure of DNA and it wasn’t until much later she was given credit for it. Why Rosalind Franklin was not given credit for the amount of work she contributed in the research of DNA is not completely clear, but it may have been caused by cultural issues she faced …show more content…

There can be factors that can help accelerate the research and others that can be detrimental to the progress. Scientists such as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Rosalind Franklin were faced with cultural and religious issues during their time which had an influence on their respective research practices. They each overcome these challenges in their own ways to further their

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