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Rosalind Franklin is the only woman among 86 scientists named in GCSE science courses, Cambridge study finds

At A-level it is barely better, with just three women among the 181 scientists named. Franklin herself appears in only one GCSE specification, OCR's biology course. University of Cambridge researchers studied six exam boards and warn the gap may help explain why so many girls drop science at 16. They want Marie Curie and Lise Meitner added to the syllabus.

Franklin died four years before Watson, Crick and Maurice Wilkins won the 1962 Nobel Prize.

Author Skyla B White says Annie Jump Cannon is uncredited: 'You can't tell one story without the other.'

The researchers say only minor changes would be needed to add women to existing courses.

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