Franklin’s experiments, in which she successfully used X-ray crystallography to create images of DNA, became the basis for James Watson and Francis Crick’s groundbreaking 1953 discovery of the ...

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 ...

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at the University of London, had already documented the helical nature of DNA when Watson and Crick accessed her unpublished data without permission and used it to ...

That still makes “Rosalind Franklin Saw DNA First” a crappy title to a misleading article. “William Astbury sees it first but Rosalind Franklin makes it count”… that’s better. Although ...

As celebrations marking the 100 birthday of Rosalind Franklin, the scientist who was instrumental in the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA, takes place this year, her niece, Rosalind ...

Born in London on July 25, 1920, chemist Rosalind Elsie Franklin was a woman of many talents, the most prominent of which was her talent for scientific discovery. From a young age, Franklin was ...

The woman whose work formed a basis for the Nobel Prize for the structure of DNA has not been appreciated until recently. Rosalind Franklin's legend may not do justice to the compassionate ...

ROSALIND FRANKLIN: The Dark Lady of DNA. By Brenda Maddox. HarperCollins, $29.95; 380 pp.

Franklin was a brilliant scientist in her own right — a physical chemist — and rose to discover the structure of DNA through laborious investigation with X-ray crystallography. She made such ...

Happy Birthday, DNA Pioneer Rosalind Franklin By Callan Kaut/BioLab Coordinator at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science • Published July 10, 2019 • Updated on July 10, 2019 at 6:09 pm • ...