Brian Lear on WNYC and in honor of Women's History Month we're going to end the show

today by talking about some of the important contributions women have made to the

field of science particularly one woman and how those histories are taught.

A new non-fiction picture book for young readers examines the life of Rosalind Franklin.

You know that name, the groundbreaking chemist who helped discover the structure of DNA.

Her x-ray diffraction photograph showed the double helix structure of DNA, which, spoiler alert alert led to her male colleagues winning the

Nobel Prize in 1962. Back with us again now is author Tanya Lee Stone

she runs the writing program at Champlain College in

Vermont and is the author of several books on Unsung Women Heroes, including her

latest remembering Rosalind Franklin. Tanya, welcome back to WNYC.

Hi Brian, thanks so much for having me back.

Why Rosalin Franklin and why in a picture book,

which I guess means it's for really little kids right?

Yes, picture books are typically for, you know, as young as four all the way up to 10.

And non-fiction picture books, of course, skew a little bit older than that for obvious reasons of all of the content, right?

Yeah. So why her? Why now?

Well, I mean, we have done a very good job telling our cis white male histories in this country for a very long time.

And I just often feel really compelled to contribute to filling in some of the many missing gaps of other extraordinary people who have

shaped our world who've been left out of the narrative.

So for people who may not know about Rosal and Franklin, tell us more about a contribution to discovering the structure of DNA.

Yes, so if you've heard, you know, kids don't really necessarily know what DNA is or what the structure of DNA is at the time

that they read this book. Of course I'm sure most of our adult listening world

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