Rosalind Franklin, English X-Ray Crystallographer

Rosalind Franklin (1920-58), British chemist and X-ray crystallographer. Franklin's work producing X-ray images of DNA was crucial in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick. Watson, Crick and Maurice Wilkins (Franklin's colleague at King's College) won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for the discovery of DNA's structure. Unfortunately, Franklin had died of cancer by then, and was thus ineligible for the award

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