Les fabuleuses / L'affaire Rosalind Franklin

Women scientists have been made invisible despite their major discoveries that sometimes changed the face of the world. Deprived of the awards and recognition reserved for their male colleagues, they were pushed aside from the history of science. The theatrical series Les Fabuleuses aims to do them justice by telling their stories.

This episode of the theatrical series (Les fabuleuses) is dedicated to Rosalind Franklin, a British physical chemist world-famous despite her young age when she arrived in London to work on DNA in 1951. She quickly felt very lonely there, in an almost exclusively male scientific world. Her colleagues, Wilkins, Crick, and Watson, had no qualms about stealing her work, which would earn them the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA in 1962.