130 Amazing Women Who Changed the World
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Clockwise from top left: Shirley Chisholm, Clara Barton, Ellen Ochoa, Nellie Bly, Josephine Baker, Mary Pickford, Maya Angelou, Amelia Earhart, Kalpana Chawla, and Kamala Harris. / George Rose/Hulton Archives, The Print Collector/Hulton Archives, NASA/Hulton Archives, Apic/Hulton Archives, Keystone/Hulton Archive, Hulton Archive, Michael Brennan/Hulton Archives, Getty Images. Article by mentalfloss .com. Mental Floss – updated March 13, 2023.
History is not always what is seems—regardless of what even the most robust textbooks might say. Take, for example, the work of Rosalind Franklin: The British scientist whose 1952 research was integral to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, but who had her research swiped by male colleagues who announced their “discovery” to the world—and won a Nobel Prize for it—without giving Franklin any of the credit. […]
