Today is the birthday of Rosalind Franklin, the pioneering x-ray crystallographer who made essential contributions toward determining the structure of DNA. She was born in London in 1920.
Franklin received a PhD in physical chemistry from Cambridge in 1945. Her work in the early 1950s exposed elusive structural details about the composition and structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which encodes genetic information for all single-celled and multi-celled organisms on Earth.
Franklin determined the density of DNA and its helical shape, and her photographs proved crucial to James Watson and Francis Crick's double-helix model. In April 1953 a paper by Franklin appeared third in a series of studies in Nature describing DNA structure, with Watson and Crick's paper appearing first. That's just one of the reasons that Franklin's contributions have been overlooked over the years. Franklin died in 1958 from cancer at age 37.
Bio:http://www.biography.com/people/rosalind-franklin-9301344
Article:http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/56/3/10.1063/1.1570771
Franklin received a PhD in physical chemistry from Cambridge in 1945. Her work in the early 1950s exposed elusive structural details about the composition and structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which encodes genetic information for all single-celled and multi-celled organisms on Earth.
Franklin determined the density of DNA and its helical shape, and her photographs proved crucial to James Watson and Francis Crick's double-helix model. In April 1953 a paper by Franklin appeared third in a series of studies in Nature describing DNA structure, with Watson and Crick's paper appearing first. That's just one of the reasons that Franklin's contributions have been overlooked over the years. Franklin died in 1958 from cancer at age 37.
Bio:http://www.biography.com/people/rosalind-franklin-9301344
Article:http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/56/3/10.1063/1.1570771
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