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Rosalind Franklin is born.
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Studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge.
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Studies X ray diffraction and crystallography.
At Laboratoire Central des Services Chimiques de l'Etat in Paris (Bio). -
Began working at King's College in London
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Photo 51 is shared without Franklin's knowledge.
Colleague Maurice Wilkins shares with competing scientists Watson and Crick at Cambridge, without Franklin's knowledge or permission (Bio). -
Left King's College
Studied the structure of the tobacco mosaic virus and the structure of RNA (Bio). -
Franklin discovered that she had ovarian cancer.
Cancer can be a side effect of prolonged exposure when working with X rays. -
Franklin dies of ovarian cancer.