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9 Scientists Who Didn’t Get the Credit They Deserved

History is full of scientists who discovered amazing things, and then languished in obscurity, or saw someone else take the credit for their work.

Sometimes they were simply overlooked. Sometimes they were the victims of prejudice and discrimination. In other cases, scientists saw the credit for their discoveries deliberately stolen by others. For many of the scientists below, their work was sufficiently world-changing that it’s been argued that they should have received a Nobel Prize.
In this article, we take a look at the scientists who deserved to go down in history, and why.

1. Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958)

There’s a joke among science nerds that goes like this: “What did Crick and Watson discover? Rosalind Franklin’s notes.” While that’s something of an exaggeration, it’s often held that Franklin should get an equal share of the credit for the discovery of DNA. Even the blue plaque outside the Eagle pub in Cambridge was recently graffitied to include Franklin’s name.
Franklin was a chemist and x-ray crystallogr

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1. Alfred Russel Wallace

Another scientist came up with the theory of evolution-by-natural-selection at the exact same time as Charles Darwin. Alfred Russel Wallace was a naturalist who had also studied how plants and animals adapted to their environment so only the fittest survived. While he was in southeast Asia recovering from a bad case of malaria, he sent a letter to Darwin outlining his idea. It spurred Darwin to action. In 1858 both of them had papers on the subject presented before the Linnean Society of London. Then Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, and everybody forgot about Wallace.

2. Lise Meitner

There’s a long tradition of scientists elbowing aside their colleagues when it comes to winning awards, especially for the Nobel Prize. Shortly before World War II, Austrian physicist Lise Meitne

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Dr Colin Thomson was a theoretical chemist before he founded Worldwide Cancer Research. He was a gamechanger who recognised that we needed to take action if we were to find new cures for cancer. We’re all about celebrating scientists who make amazing discoveries but who might not make front-page news, so here are some of our favourites from history.

Alice Augusta Ball

Year born: 1892

Location: US

Field: Chemistry

Known for: Leprosy treatment

Ball was an American chemist who developed the “Ball Method”, the most effective treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century. She was the first woman and first African American to receive a Master’s degree from the University of Hawaii and was also the university’s first female and first African American professor.

Her revolutionary research on leprosy went unpublished after she sadly died at the young age of 24. In a shocking turn of events, another chemist, Arthur L. Dean, stole her work, publishe