Sheril Kirshenbaum on Rosalind Franklin

I’ve embedded Sheril Kirschenbaum’s “toot” by way of a test of how easy it is to report/quote content from a Mastodon server. Seems quite straightforward, not sure I will do more of this kind of thing here though it seems like a very late 90s thing to do with a website, but it works. Her text presumably won’t be visible in the Sciencebase newsfeed, just this paragraph that I’ve written to explain this post.

It might be worthing noting that although Franklin’s X-ray crystallography is now much more famous than she was at the time, there was other work by Florence Bell and William Astbury at the University of Leeds who carried out DNA X-ray crystallography in 1938, long before Franklin and her colleagues, as it turns out.