Anne Sayre's 1975 biography made Franklin's many accomplishments much more widely known, and she was posthumously honored as a pioneering feminist as well as an excellent scientist. The president of the New York Academy of Sciences asked Aaron Klug to recommend Franklin for a special "woman of science" award. In this letter, Klug responded, and recommended that Franklin be honored for her crucial contributions, not as a "woman of science." She was never an active feminist, he noted, and might have found it distasteful to be celebrated as one.
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1 (73,818 Bytes)
Date:
1976-04-14 (April 14, 1976)
Creator:
Klug, Aaron
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Recipient:
Siekevitz, Philip
New York Academy of Sciences
Source:
Original Repository: Churchill Archives Centre. The Papers of Rosalind Franklin
Rights:
Reproduced with permission of Aaron Klug.
Subject:
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):
Awards and Prizes
Exhibit Category:
Biographical Information
Relation:
Letter from Philip Siekevitz to Aaron Klug (March 26, 1976)
Letter from Philip Siekevitz to Aaron Klug (March 26, 1976)