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Rosalind Franklin

  • Birthday

    Birthday
    She was a British chemist born in London whose work was key in the comprehension of DNA and RNA as well as virus, carbon and graphite
  • Studies

    Studies
    She got a degree in Natural Sciences in Newnham College, Cambridge and she started a doctorate in Physical chemistry.
  • Carbon Work

    Carbon Work
    The British Society for the Investigation of the Use of Carbon offered her an investigation vacancy, starting her work about carbon.
  • X-rays

    X-rays
    In Paris he became a crystallographer of X-rays in the Central Laboratory of Chemical Services of the State.
  • DNA

    DNA
    She started working in the London King's College, where she took pictures of DNA for the first time ever. These pictures allowed scientists to learn more about the structure of DNA.
  • Death

    Death
    She died in Chelsea because of cancer probably caused by her exposure to radiation.
  • Nobel Prize

    Nobel Prize
    Watson, Crick and Wilkins shared a Nobel Prize in medicine because of the pictures without permission of Rosalind Franklin.