A crucial contribution. Rosalind Franklin made a crucial contribution to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, but some would say she got a raw deal. Biographer Brenda Maddox called ...

Rosalind Franklin, a scientist at the University of London, had already documented the helical nature of DNA when Watson and Crick accessed her unpublished data without permission and used it to ...

Rosalind Franklin is known for making a significant contribution to the discovery of the DNA double helix. In recent years, her story has become famous as one of a woman whose scientific work was ...

Actor Juliet Stevenson has revealed Nicole Kidman annoyed her by claiming she brought attention to Rosalind Franklin’s story when she played the scientist in 2015. The 68-year-old actor, who’s ...

Rosalind Franklin always liked facts. She was logical and precise, and impatient with things that were otherwise. She decided to become a scientist when she was 15. She passed the examination for ...

Rosalind Franklin was a highly skilled X-ray crystallographer by the time John Randall, director at King’s College London, instructed her to research DNA in the college labs in 1951.