| Several things-
1. Henri Becquerel, not Marie Curie, first discovered radioactivity. Curie, Becquerel's student, discovered the elements radium and polonium.
2. Rosalind Franklin was the experimental crystallographer that gathered the raw data that Watson and Crick used in discovering the helical structure of DNA. However, she had nothing to do with their actual theoretical work or discovery. Providing raw data is important, but if you're using this interchangeably with discovering the theory, you might as well credit Michelson and Morley with Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity. Same logic.
3. Neither Jane Goodall nor Rachel Carson are "scientists". That doesn't make their work unimportant, but they are more in the public advocacy/policy sector. Neither has ever published significant theoretical or experimental findings. |
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