A Person/Expert you admire

"Ignorance affirms or denies emphatically. Science doubt"
Voltaire. French philosopher

"I'm going to be a... when I grow up"
This sentence is very common to hear it among children, however I don't remember saying it because I never wanted to be like someone else. When I discovered the great minds of the world I dreamed of being a little of what they were. 
In this world there been great scientist, however, those that I have never been able to forget are James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin who co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953, which formed the basis for modern biotechnology. Today I'll tell you about Rosalind Franklin, her contribution and how difficult it is to be a woman in science.

Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) was a British chemist; she enrolled at Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1938 and studied chemistry. In 1941, she was awarded Second Class Honors in her finals, which, at that time, was accepted as a bachelor's degree in the qualifications for employment. She went on to work as an assistant research officer at the British Coal Utilization Research Association, where she studied the porosity of coal--work that was the basis of her 1945 Ph.D. thesis "The physical chemistry of solid organic colloids with special reference to coal".

In the fall of 1946, Franklin was appointed at the Laboratoire Central des Services Chimiques de l'Etat in Paris, where she worked with crystallographer Jacques Mering. He taught her X-ray diffraction, which would play an important role in her research that led to the discovery of "the secret of life" -- the structure of DNA. In addition, she pioneered the use of X-rays to create images of crystallized solids in analyzing complex, unorganized matter, no just single crystals. In 1951 she returned to England to King's College London where her change was to upgrade the X-ray crystallographic laboratory there for work with DNA. Franklin left King's College in March 1953 and relocated to Birkbeck College, where she studied the structure of the tobacco mosaic virus and the structure of RNA. In five years, Rosalind published 17 papers on viruses, and her group laid the foundations for structural virology.

I like Rosalind Franklin because she was a incredible woman, she inspires me to never stop studying. She continued working even after discovering that she had ovarian cancer in 1956. This woman changed the world with her discovery, thanks to her, biology was transformed.