• Rosalind Franklin, British Chemist and X-Ray Crystallographer, known for role in discovering the structure of DNA
• Franklin is one of the many women in science (and history, in general) who is known more by the names of the men around her rather than for her own accomplishments (which were many!)
• One of her colleagues shared a preliminary photograph she took (photograph 51) with a competing research team (Watson and Crick), which led that competing team to publish the breakthrough paper 
• Franklin had the same hypothesis as the competing team, but was waiting for more comprehensive data before publishing
• This lines up with a lot of people’s experience in corporate America, that women will not apply for a job/promotion/grant for which they do not have ALL of the requirements, while men will often apply anyway, even if it’s a reach
• Ladies of Women L.E.A.D., take inspiration from this story: take the chance, apply for the job, insist on proper credit, advocate for yourself! Win your Nobel Prize on your terms, and be remembered for your own name.

— presented by Liz Spicer