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Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>chemist</span></a> &amp; x-ray <a href="https://spore.social/tags/crystallographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>crystallographer</span></a> whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of <a href="https://spore.social/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DNA</span></a>, made important contributions to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/carbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>carbon</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://spore.social/tags/virus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>virus</span></a> research, was 1 of the great scientists of the 20th century.⁠<br />⁠<br />Watson’s bio lead some to (inaccurately) joke, “What did Watson and Crick discover?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes.” 🧵</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histstm" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>histstm</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sciart</span></a>⁠</p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>She was a <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>physicist</span></a>, <a href="https://spore.social/tags/crystallographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>crystallographer</span></a>, <a href="https://spore.social/tags/pacifist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pacifist</span></a> &amp; prison reformer. She was the 1st to employ Fourier spectral methods &amp; used them to solve the structure of hexachlorobenzene in ‘31. In ‘45 she was one of the 1st 2 women elected Fellow of the Royal Society &amp; was the 1st woman: tenured professor at UC London, president of the International Union of Crystallography &amp; president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 

Born in poverty in Ireland, her mother left her father &amp; 🧵2</p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>chemist</span></a> &amp; x-ray <a href="https://spore.social/tags/crystallographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>crystallographer</span></a> whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of <a href="https://spore.social/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DNA</span></a>, made important contributions to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/carbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>carbon</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://spore.social/tags/virus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>virus</span></a> research, was 1 of the great scientists of the 20th century.⁠<br />⁠ <br />Watson’s bio lead some to (inaccurately) joke, &quot;What did Watson and Crick discover?&quot; &quot;Rosalind Franklin&#39;s notes.&quot; While it’s important that …</p><p>🧵1/n. <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histstm" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>histstm</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sciart</span></a>⁠</p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>April 25 is <a href="https://spore.social/tags/NationalDNADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NationalDNADay</span></a> so I’m sharing my portrait of Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>chemist</span></a> &amp; x-ray <a href="https://spore.social/tags/crystallographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>crystallographer</span></a> whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of <a href="https://spore.social/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DNA</span></a>, made important contributions to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/carbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>carbon</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://spore.social/tags/virus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>virus</span></a> research, was 1 of the great scientists of the 20th century.⁠<br />⁠<br /> There’s a joke amongst scientists that goes, “What did Watson &amp; Crick discover?”<br />“Rosalind Franklin’s notes” 🧵<br /><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sciart</span></a>⁠</p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to Kathleen Lonsdale DBE FRS (née Yardley, 1903-1971) who solved a longstanding <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>chemistry</span></a> conundrum of the shape of benzene, here with her drawing of electron density for hexachlorobenzene (green) &amp; model of hexamethylbenzene explore shape in different forms. Her husband said, “Before prison it might have bothered her to go to Buckingham Palace. Afterwards, Holloway or Buckingham Palace were all the same.” She was a <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>physicist</span></a>, <a href="https://spore.social/tags/crystallographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>crystallographer</span></a>, <a href="https://spore.social/tags/pacifist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pacifist</span></a> &amp; prison reformer. 🧵1/</p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>She was a <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>physicist</span></a>, <a href="https://spore.social/tags/crystallographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>crystallographer</span></a>, <a href="https://spore.social/tags/pacifist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pacifist</span></a> &amp; prison reformer. She was the 1st to employ Fourier spectral methods &amp; used them to solve the structure of hexachlorobenzene in ‘31. In ‘45 she was one of the 1st 2 women elected Fellow of the Royal Society &amp; was the 1st woman: tenured professor at UC London, president of the International Union of Crystallography &amp; president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 

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Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>While Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>chemist</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://spore.social/tags/crystallographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>crystallographer</span></a> is now remembered because her x-ray diffraction images which were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of <a href="https://spore.social/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DNA</span></a>, I am posting her for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/SciArtSeptember" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SciArtSeptember</span></a> theme charcoal, because of her important contributions to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/carbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>carbon</span></a> research.</p><p>⁠She made invaluable contributions across physics, chemistry &amp; biology, working to determining the structure of <a href="https://spore.social/tags/RNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RNA</span></a>, </p><p>🧵1/2<br /><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histstm" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>histstm</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sciart</span></a>⁠ <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>chemist</span></a> &amp; x-ray <a href="https://spore.social/tags/crystallographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>crystallographer</span></a> whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of <a href="https://spore.social/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DNA</span></a>, made important contributions to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/carbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>carbon</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://spore.social/tags/virus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>virus</span></a> research, was 1 of the great scientists of the 20th century.⁠<br />⁠<br />There&#39;s a joke amongst scientists that goes, &quot;What did Watson and Crick discover?&quot; &quot;Rosalind Franklin&#39;s notes.&quot; But there’s more to the story.</p><p>1/n</p><p> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histstm" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>histstm</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sciart</span></a>⁠</p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>For International Women’s Day <a href="https://spore.social/tags/iwd2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>iwd2023</span></a> my ever-growing collection of <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> from the ancient world until today:</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mathematician</span></a> Sophie Germaine<br /><a href="https://spore.social/tags/astronomer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>astronomer</span></a> Nicole-Reine Lepaute<br /><a href="https://spore.social/tags/crystallographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>crystallographer</span></a> Kathleen Lonsdale<br />Amateur mathematician Marjorie Rice<br />Astronomer Vera Rubin<br />Mathematician Katherine Johnson <br />Mathematician Virginia Ragsdale …</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/portrait" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>portrait</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/scientist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>scientist</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InternationalWomensDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InternationalWomensDay</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/internationalWomensDay2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>internationalWomensDay2023</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>She was a <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>physicist</span></a>, <a href="https://spore.social/tags/crystallographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>crystallographer</span></a>, <a href="https://spore.social/tags/pacifist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pacifist</span></a> &amp; prison reformer. She was the 1st to employ Fourier spectral methods &amp; used them to solve the structure of hexachlorobenzene in ‘31. In ‘45 she was one of the 1st 2 women elected Fellow of the Royal Society &amp; was the 1st woman: tenured professor at UC London, president of the International Union of Crystallography &amp; president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 

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