Eventually, the institution revised the plaque to properly recognize Franklin and Wilkins alongside Watson and Crick, also ...

Rosalind Franklin 1920 - 1958. ... Maurice Wilkins, was on vacation at the time, and when he returned, their relationship was muddled. He assumed she was to assist his work; ...

Rosalind Franklin’s contribution to discovering the structure of life’s genetic material rarely receives more mention than a ...

In January 1953, Franklin was getting ready to leave King’s College. Her colleague Maurice Wilkins was independently pursuing DNA’s structure, and she had grown so miserable there, largely ...

Instead, she collaborated and shared data with Watson, Crick and Maurice Wilkins. Seventy years ago, a trio of scientific papers announcing the discovery of DNA’s double helix was published.

Maurice Wilkins (left), James Watson and Francis Crick at the ceremony for the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Credit: King’s College London Archives: K/PP178/15/3/1 ...

Meanwhile, Franklin — an expert in X-ray imaging — was studying the molecules at King’s College in London, along with a scientist named Maurice Wilkins. It was there that Franklin captured ...

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 ...

STOCKBRIDGE — In 1962, James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for solving the structure of DNA. In his acceptance speech on behalf of ...