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 ...

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 ...

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

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at the University of London, had already documented the helical nature of DNA when Watson and Crick accessed her unpublished data without permission and used it to ...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 was a chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose data contributed to the discovery of DNA’s molecular structure. That data wasn’t stolen from her, newly uncovered evidence ...

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.

James Watson and Francis Crick revealed the structure of DNA — the genetic instructions in all living things — 70 years ago in the journal Nature. Watson and Crick could not have succeeded ...

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 ...

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.

The debate regarding Franklin's role in the DNA discovery largely hinged on the appropriation of data from an immaculate x-ray crystallographic image of DNA taken by Franklin in May 1952.

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 ...