Rosalind Franklin was known for her intellectual rigour, keen sense of justice, and strong personality. She was a private ...

Regarding “ Rosalind Franklin’s Nobel ” (Letters, May 5): While James Watson et al. were awarded a 1962 Nobel Prize for the discovery of DNA, key team member Franklin was omitted.

Scientist Rosalind Franklin’s often overlooked role in DNA discovery gets a new twist A model of a DNA molecule in 1962.

KELLY: Rosalind Franklin died in 1958 at the age of 37, four years before Watson, Crick and another scientist were awarded the Nobel Prize for their work, with no mention of Franklin's contribution.

After ceasing work on DNA in 1953, Franklin’s skilled use of X-ray crystallography allowed her to make fundamental contributions to our understanding of the structure of RNA viruses.

In his acceptance speech on behalf of himself and his colleagues, Watson never mentioned biophysicist Rosalind Franklin, whose development of advanced X-ray crystallography while she was a research ...

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 ...

Historians have long debated the role that Dr. Franklin played in identifying the double helix. A new opinion essay argues that she was an “equal contributor.” By Emily Anthes On April 25 ...

In "The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix," Dr. Howard Markel tells the complicated tale of what he calls one of the most ...

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 ...

Among the actors central to the epic revelation of DNA's structure -- Francis Crick and James Watson at Cambridge University and Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins at King's College, London ...