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- Rosalind Franklin was a British scientist who helped discover the structure of DNA, but you most likely haven't heard of her. Hank will attempt to fix this gap in your knowledge on today's SciShow: Great Minds.
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Is it to late to give her that noble prize? Or at least give her some credit, maybe even a legacy award for people who in their time were underestimated.
Elisa Rosales
Unfortunately it isn't awarded to those that are dead, even if they made a huge contribution to a scientific discovery, and I believe a single Noble Prize can't be awarded to more than 3 people.
Fortunately Rosalind Franklin is now starting to get the recognition she deserves. She's being mentioned in articles relating to the discovery of DNA and students are learning about her.
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I think people are now talking about Watson, Crick and Franklin when DNA is discussed.
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She deserve 3 noble prize
1. For the face mask
2. For the structure of DNA
3. For the structure of viruses.
But she must have stolen it from someone else. So go and find *_him_* first.
That wasn't the end of her career. She also uncovered the structure of a virus for the first time, and her colleague in that work also received the Nobel after her death. However, he at least gave her credit.
Times are changing. The "Watson-Crick were dicks of DNA structure" theme is mostly a sad postscript to the history of culture changing, albeit they were a bit behind their own times. I would hope that the Watson-Crick link would be discredited in Science.
The truth always comes out, eventually.
This is a sad story =/, poor Rosalind.
No. (4 years later)
Mushroom Flow Yes. (3 days later)
Rosalind Franklin is the reason I became interested with biochemistry in the 7th Grade. I have since moved to England, and I am studying to get into University to study Biochemistry and Genetics. Thank you for making a video about her, she deserves it. :)
This video made me look smart in class!!! One of my professors asked how the structure of DNA was discovered to which I immediately piped out X-ray crystallography! Booyeah!
As a crystallographer I'd love to see a Scishow episode on crystallography. Despite having the most nobel prizes in a single field and the youngest person every to recieve a nobel prize lots of people still have no idea what it is. Also it's such a pretty science.
All I can think of is an incapacitated Hank collecting precious gems that he buys on the internet.
Seems cool
There is absolutely no question that "Rosie" earned and deserved the Nobel Prize. Knowledge of her Photograph 51 was a key element in the final successful model of the structure of DNA. A blessing on you head Rosie, mozel Tov, mozel tov
? You mean Raymond Gosling's photo 51, surely? The photo the Watson and Crick didn't have access to until the month after they solved the structure.
Nikola Tesla! That would be an awesome story..
Scishow: correcting the sexist mistakes of the past and giving the great women some credit and recognition among the new generation. Good work.
What has sexism got to do with it they all worked and collaborated together, and she died before the papper was published and the Nobel prize was awarded. This sort of stuff happens all the time to both man and women
Thank you for putting the spotlight on lesser-known scientists like Rosalind Franklin.
I love the fact that almost half of the great minds you guys chose to present are woman! Good job on not perpetuating gender stereotypes! way to go
Indeed! I am also sad for the fact that men and women diversed from each other by forces of evolution so that women were tied to producing offspring rather than getting to contribute to society in a diffrent way. And I'm also sad that when there was a chance for women to choose the way of contribution, men weren't used to it and hindered their progress.
@@Antropovich Thousands of years ago, most men didn't exactly 'contribute to society'. They were tied to farming or hunting for the mother and offspring.
Archimedes! The actual inventor of calculus (though Newton didn't rip him off; his works were lost at the time of Newton.)!
I love Rosalind Franklin! I learned about all her contributions to science in high school when we watched an educational video. It seriously pisses me off how she isn't credited enough for her work!
I think she is definitely credited now. The fact you learnt about her in high school is an improvement on the situation when I was at school. Her name was never. mentioned then
My science teacher actually made his point to make us recognise the importance of not-so-well-known contributors in researches. And also pointed out Ms. Franklin was not just a contributor, like, in the test the correct answer to the "Who first deduced the structure of DNA?" had to include her, so good job Mr YY (my teacher)
She accidentally found the double-helix.
She died not knowing what she accidentally found.
Yeah, but nonetheless it was a great contribution, one worth remembering
If she didn't take the picture, Watson and Crick wouldn't have found out until much later. So yes, she's a key contributor
Andrea Cussolotto
Ethan A I do not consider a genius quite intentionally putting an exceptional amount of time and effort knowing exactly what she was doing and finding it an accident. When Watson and Crick built an incorrect physical model she instantly found major flaws. Her discovery or confirmation was no accident. If there was any accidental discovery it was Watson's.
Whenever I see Watson and/or Crick mentioned in a textbook, I cross it out with red ink and write Rosalind Franklin on top of it.
Another great quote from Watson: "The best place for a woman is in someone else's lab." Great guy. He also spent time in the book deriding her mannish clothing and lack of suitable makeup.
Read both books: "The Double Helix" by Watson and "The Dark Lady of DNA" by Maddox. Awesome accounts of this historical discovery. Even in Watson's own book he expresses Franklin is the key.
You should do a great minds episode on one of the following Native Americans: John Herrington, Mary Ross, Dr. Jani Ingram or Dr. David Burgess
It would be great to see a video on Copernicus or Galileo.
yeah, it would
A video on Issac Newton
Speaking of Cavendish Lab, could you plz do Great Minds on Henry Cavendish? Eccentric, brilliant, wealthy British scientist who was so pathologically shy that he communicated to his female servants through hand-written notes, rather than talk. He discovered hydrogen, was the first to measure Earth's mass, and formulated fundamental relations in electrical engineering some 50 years before other scientists would discover the same phenomena, independently, since Cavendish rarely published his work.
i get called sexist a lot because i believe in sexual dimorphism and that civilization was built and is maintained by men, but Rosalind Franklin is, in my opinion, one of the most important humans of all time. it's too bad she got cheated out of everything she did and that Watson was such an asshole
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As for the maintenance of civilization, of course it's still mostly men. Women have only been liberated and allowed to enter the more advanced fields (in any significant numbers) for about 60 years. Who knows what our civilization will look like in another 60 years.
Agreed though, that Franklin was incredible.
+DJ Grumbles Actually, I doubt that civilization was built by men very much. As I reckon most people who actually study history professionally do.
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But if men built civilisation what did women do?
Do one on Feynman! While he was an undisputed physics genius and physicists like to highlight his impish side (he apparently worked on some of his ideas while in strip clubs and was known as a lockpicker) From what I've heard he was also kind of a 'smarter than thou' jerk.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! ROSALIND :-)
Great stuff. I gave a lunch and learn work on molecular biology at work and spent about 5 minutes talking about Franklin and X-ray Crystallography and how her untimely death likely cheated her of the Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA.
It also cheated the world of a great scientist. She did important work after her research on DNA.
In my Biology education, the teacher barely mentioned Watson and Crick and focussed almost entirely on Rosalind Franklin. Which is great!
i heard this couple of times, it still makes me so angry!!!
In honor of Women's History Month, how about one on Barbara McClintock and her work that led her to discover the process of transposition?
Make a video about Srinivasa Ramanujam☺.He is one of the greatest mathematician of all time
More of these need to be done, and do Bill Gates or some people that are still alive today :)
Like Stephen Hawking.
Oh well
Do a video on Andrea Mia Ghez. She is the one who first found black holes at the center of the milky way galaxy thus opening the door to a new research in galaxy formation.
Would love a video on John Nash.
Thank you for this video. =) Everyone should know who Rosalind Franklin is and her contributions to science.
Michael Faraday (if I spelled that right)
You did
"The world deserved more than 37 years of rosalind franklin", what a nice thing to say hank, awesome work, keep it up
How sad that we never heard of her. Well, *I* hadn't heard of her. Thanks for shining the spotlight on forgotten heroes and heroines.
Hi Hank, Can you do an episode on Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Phil Zimmermann, Kautilya & Aryabhata. Thank you :)
AWESOME woman--Strong female leaders in the sciences are SO inspiring. Thanks for sharing, SciShow, she deserves all the credit we can give.
Well, I do not hold a degree in quantum mechanics, however without a doubt, I could prove to you the difference between quantum mechanics and human behaviour. In quantum mechanics we provide a mathematical description of what will occur. We can also replicate our experiments, a million times need be, and receive the same results. Uncertainty is an integral part of physics, however this uncertainty is calculated and proven through the use of mathematics, and hence can be proven and replicated.
A lot of very well known science (and scientists) is/are making discoveries that were imminent. In many fields, that is just the nature of it. Quite often, it is a race to be first (to be published).
We still honor those who get in first, even if very deserving (or more deserving) people placed second (or third).
It may be impossible to ascertain true "greatness of the mind", a nebulous concept in the first place. We usually go by results.
You should do Lev Landau for one of these episodes. One of the greatest Physicists of all time and only really known by Physicists.
Here is another person you should do a story on: Cecelia Payne-Gapsochkin - discovered the hugely important fact that stars are made of helium and hydrogen. Studied at Cambridge 20 years before Rosalind Franklin, but they wouldn't give her a degree at first because she was female. Went on to be the chair of Astronomy Dept at Harvard, but is pretty much unknown
It would be incredible if you could do Georges Lemaître, father of the Big Bang theory, Hubble's law and the theory of the expansion of the Universe.
("Your calculations are correct, but your physics is atrocious." -A. Einstein on Lemaître's theory of an expanding universe)
Amazing story, poor Rosalind Franklin but what an amazing scientist! Actually, if she's British that would mean she'd be a perfect contender for the person to go on the new five pound notes to replace Elizabeth Fry.
I'd love to hear more about Einstein, I kow he is super popular, but he's my favorite :)
Mostly because my mother took his quote: "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales..." to heart.
Do one about : Anthoni van leeuwenhoek( the inventor the microscope) It would be great to see something about one of the most important inventors!
One of the great examples of misogyny in science. I wince at the use of "emotional" to describe her as well, so close to dismissing her as hysterical so clueless and gendered an insult.
Not only did the world deserve more of her she personally did NOT deserve to be over shadowed by the thieving asses that took her work and passed it off as their own.
it's so disheartening as a female science student when one realises how much science owes to the women behind the scenes....
Emotional and unable to interpret her data.....Yeah right sounds like classic sexism to me. A scientist should know better.
Rosalind Franklin is the coolest. Probably my favorite scientist. I wish you had also mentioned that she made other great contributions with her research like her work on the structures of the tobacco mosaic virus and the polio virus.
You guys should do a Great Minds on Zephram Cochrane or one on Tobias Fleming Shaw and Wallace Fujikawa.
Didn't doctor Watson was that rude. Sherlock must be disappointed.
Thank you for making this video. For this hugely under-appreciated great lady who contributed a whole lot to modern biology. It was unfortunate she didn't receive the Nobel Prize although she deserves it.
For the love of all that is holy, please do an episode of Scishow talking about Dawn and New Horizons and the study of dwarf planets in our solar system. The next few years are going to do amazing things for our knowledge of Pluto, Ceres, and probably other Kuiper belt objects.
Thirty-seven - That makes be sad. I'm a scientist myself, a chemist to be precise, and though I don't think I'll contribute to the world of science nearly as much as she did, I still hope that I will get a few more years than this unfortunate woman did.
Don't be careless with radioactive material! Apparently, Franklin was a little cavalier about that, and radiation exposure may have contributed to her cancer.
I think that you should talk about Clodomiro Picado. He was an absolute genius!
In my high school Biology class we learned about Franklin before Watson and Crick. My teacher actually hated Watson and Crick but I think he had the right idea essentially giving Franklin the credit because she's the one that actually made the discovery.
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There is a good movie from the 80s with a very young Jeff Goldblum picturing the events around the discovery of the DNA-structure. It's called "Life Story" (also "Double Helix" or "The Race for the Double Helix").
It was a film made by the BBC science department in fact. With some other great actors as well as Goldblum.
The director went on to make Hollywood films, including The Bodyguard with Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston.
I once went to a lunch party with one of the other actors in that film, who played a scientist called Max Perutz. I remember his telling me that Goldblum was incredibly eccentric and had a disconcerting technique of reading aloud from a PG Wodehouse novel just before a take and then throwing the book away when the director called "Action!"
When there are scientific discoveries, everybody wins. - Hank Green
How about a great minds video about Albert Einstein.
Can you please do a great minds episode about Henry Cavendish.
How about actually interviewing Jocelyn Bell Burnell about her discovery of the Pulsar and the failure of the Swedish Academy to give her a Nobel Prize having given her supervisor one for her discovery.
That was appalling. But her astonishing lack of bitterness about it is incredibly inspiring.
I remember reading about her in my bio book in my first year at college, it was my very first time to hear her name. I felt sorry that what she did was only mentioned in a small box, where most students won't even bother to read! my teacher at school never mentioned her when we studied the DNA.
She really does deserve more attention!
Btw, thanks for the video I have a genetics exam this Saturday, so this kinda came in time :P
Since taking Biology my sophomore year I've always looked up to Franklin's independence and immense courage. It makes me happy to know there are others who know how important her research was to the discovery of the DNA structure. It's sad not many people know how important she was.
Totally different from this topic, but it would be really awesome if you did a video on Ted Fujita. (The man who created the F-scale for tornadoes.) He was the original storm chaser and just an amazing guy. I wish more people knew about him.
You guys should do a great minds episode about Mozart if you haven't already!
Georges Lemaitre deserves a video. He was incredibly important to cosmology and physics as we know it today, having first theorized the Big Bang, and yet barely anybody knows who he is.
Is that true? I think anyone who knows anything about cosmology knows that Lemaitre was one of the first people to propose the idea. A far less known contributor to the field would be Henrietta Swan-Leavitt who discovered the Period-Luminosity Law of Cepheid Variable stars that effectively gave cosmologists a way of measuring the absolute luminosity of stars in distant galaxies. That enabled Hubble to deduce that they were receding and that therefore the Universe was expanding. He wasn't a man to give credit to others but even he thought Swan-Leavitt deserved a Nobel Prize.
In the field of DNA research, another unsung hero is Oswald Avery who proved beyond doubt that DNA was the molecule of inheritance. In some respects that was more important than deducing its structure
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Albert Einstein
Heinrich Hertz
Michael Faraday
Issac Newton
I'd love to see a "Great Minds" feature on Carl Sagan. He brought science into the American households and helped make our nation more scientifically literate. He's a personal hero of mine, and I'd like to see how Hank would pay tribute to his work.
I love this "Great Minds" series! I would love to see more on female scientists, like Cecilia Payne-Gaposhkin and Hedy Lamarr.
I'm so glad you featured Rosalind Franklin! She is one of my inspirations :).
Thank you for doing an episode for her Hank. I always thought she deserved more. Also I think her colleagues put her down way too much. Anyway she was pretty awesome!
My comment is the 1000th comment
You say "feminist" like it's a bad thing.
I wrote my chemistry term project on her!
Hey hank! My boyfriend and I recently got diagnosed with hashimoto diseases (oddly enough while we're living abroad in Germany). With what little research I've done on Me. Hashimoto, I've learned that he also was "diagnosed" in Germany too! Maybe do a great minds about him? Orrrr, hashimoto disease in general?! Anyway, love the show! Keep on keepin' on!
No, you were right the first time. Well done.
"Astronomy"
(Yeah; English is hard)
It's hard to not respect a woman of science. I don't think she was going for some 'i'm better than men' additude. She legitimatly wanted to discover something unknown. So, please don't dumb down this remarkable woman by comparing her to some feminest movement.
Thank you Hank Green! You're making my BIO 101 understandable! Thank God for you and your mind!!!! Keep up your greatness, the world needs you!!!!
OMG i saw the Enterprice in the heelix!!! Hahaha.
There is little doubt that Franklyn was a very good scientist indeed. Any university would be pleased to have her on staff. But the Nobel Prize went to the right scientists, however gracelessly. The thing of interest is always not how hard you work, or how well you work, or how dedicated you are, but WHAT DID YOU DISCOVER? .. or WHAT DID YOU MAKE, etc. Watson and Crick explained what Franklyn had been looking at (apparently for years). So they are worth the Nobel Prize. Easy. DNA is one of the most stunning discoveries ever. The link between mere chemicals and life itself! Wow.
Einstein's incredible work was interpreting what others saw. In effect he did the same thing as Watson and Crick.
Men tend to be excellent fiddlers and players - in effect, full of childish energy. They make superb discoveries as they fiddle their way to solutions and explanations. Women tend to find much of this - men's activity - a childish waste of time. And they are right! But look around you, because practically EVERY place you set your foot is created, invented, manufactured, dreamed up by men!
Maaaan if my teacher ever quiz us on this, I WILL NEVER EVER CHOOSE WATSON AND CRICK AS THE DISCOVERER OF THE DNA! i dont care if Rosalind Franklin is not one of the choices, I will write her name down! i would rather lose a point knowing that I chose the right answer.
Philo Farnsworth
Thanks you for featuring her! I usually tell my students about her contribution and highlight the injustice of her not getting any credit at all.
Watson was also none as being a racist with his last most famous comment and I quote
"inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really."
Its not surprising he took that information.
The way I see it if pauling put preemptively a 3 stranded model and missed the target..a great scientist..then Franklin brilliance..she had the holy grail of science captured..Nobel prize😃🎯🇨🇦🌐
Rosalind Franklin worked hard for x-ray diffraction. Without her photo-51, other so called genius people can't discover the real structure of DNA molecules. I personally possess a great respect for her efforts.
My biology professor who spoke with Watson said that Rosalind didn't agree with the work of Watson and Crick, said that she wanted to be excluded from their work and so on. Now I don't know who to believe.
Oh, I BA often. I work with homeless youth and even as a member of the security department many of my clients see me as a big brother.(get the joke) My business is making the world better.
Like all scientists who run a lab, the actual work is done by PhD students, in this case it was Raymond Gosling who took that famous picture. See /watch?v=e9-ti4_LY68
XD I remember my science teacher had us watch this, and then he said John Green instead of Hank and I was just like 👁👄👁
Nice video though, lmao
TH-cam doesn't allow links. Just type at Google Watson DNA racist comment. Plus you can some more racists comments he made on his wiki.
Didn't they already do him, though, I agree he's a great mind. Shame no one was able replicate his wireless electricity conduction.
Where's the transcript? I'm clicking "show transcript" but there isn't one (or I'm just not seeing it).
If possible, please make a documentary on Prof. G N Ramchandran, the man behind famous Ramchandran Plot
1:15 reminds me of breaking bad
I wonder...
We DO need the acidity, the acids activate enzymes like pepsinogen into pepsin to start the breakdown of proteins.
Sometimes I wonder how far we'd be along if women hadn't been discredited for most of human history....