March is Women's History Month

After a hiatus, I'm back.    What better time to reappear than during Women's History Month? 

The theme of Women's History Month for 2013 is Women Inspiring Innovation Through Imagination: Celebrating Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.



I have my own honoree for this month: Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 Jul 1920 - 16 Apr 1958) was a British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer who made critical contributions to the understanding of the fine molecular structures of DNA, RNA and viruses (among other things).


Rosalind Franklin's contributions were only hinted at by Watson and Crick, despite that it was her x-ray image of DNA structure that revealed a fatal flaw their working concept and set them on the right path.  Because she had died in 1958, she was not eligible for nomination to the Nobel Prize subsequently awarded to Crick, Watson, and Wilkins (her research assistant) in 1962.  It was only years later that her contributions were highlighted.