TRIJUMF OTKRIĆA II: INTELEKTUALNE BIOGRAFIJE DOROTI HODŽKIN I ROZALIND FRENKLIN
The Triumph of Discovery II: Intellectual Biographies of Dorothy Hodgkin and Rosalind Franklin

Summary/Abstract: This essay analyzes the lives and works of two distinguished women scientists in the 20th century, Dorothy Hodgkin and Rosalind Franklin. Their work and the work of their other female colleagues show that female scientists are present in large numbers in sciences that deal with living beings. The evidence for that is the number of the most important prizes and awards that female scientists received for their work in the fields of molecular biology, physiology, and medicine in general. This essay, therefore, analyzes scientifc discoveries made by Dorothy Hodgkin, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for her determinations of the structures of important biochemical substances by X-ray techniques, and Rosalind Franklin, whose participation in and contribution to the discovery of the so-called secret of life, the DNA structure, was not offcially and adequately recognized.

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