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Rosalind Franklin's name already appears on the facade of the UPCT's R + D + i building, where great people from the history of science are enrolled.
The new name has been chosen in a popular vote in which almost a thousand people participated on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
The Rector, Alejandro Díaz, the Vice-Chancellors Beatriz Miguel and Marcos Ros, the Councilor Javier Celdrán, the Mayor Ana Belén Castejón, the Director of the Séneca Foundation, Antonio González, and the Director General of Universities, Juan Monzó, all attended the discovery of the name. .
The British chemist and crystallographer Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-1958) is responsible for important contributions to the understanding of the structure of DNA, which had a great impact on the scientific advances of Genetics.
She is the author of X-ray diffraction images that revealed the double-helical shape of this molecule, of RNA, of polio viruses and of tobacco mosaic.
His teammate, Aaron Klug, who continued his research won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1982. His research on carbon and graphite was also highly valued by the scientific community.
The first scholarship that he won upon entering the University was donated to refugee students of World War II.
Rosalind E. Franklin, who received 438 votes, 45% of those issued, was the most voted during the vote, which closed last midnight.
Behind were the options of Rita Levi-Motalcini, with 25%, Irène Joliot-Curie (20%) and Maria Goeppert-Mayer (10%).
The United Nations supports women in this International Day and promotes women's and girls' access to education, training and research in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, as well as their participation in those activities, at all levels.
It is the second year that the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) carries out this initiative, in 2018 the winner was Hypatia after receiving 487 votes.
Source: UPCT
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