Rosalind Franklin
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Rosalind Elsie Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer. Her work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite. Although her
Franklin with a microscope in 1955
A satirical death note of A-DNA helix by Franklin and Gosling
An electron micrograph of tobacco mosaic virus
Blue plaque (now replaced) on The Eagle, Cambridge, with Franklin's name added at the bottom
Photo 51
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Photo 51 is a 1952 X-ray based fiber diffraction image of a paracrystalline gel composed of DNA fiber taken by Rosalind Franklin's PhD student Raymond Gosling at King's College London, while working i
Rosalind Franklin
…to Birkbeck College in 1953. Franklin is best known for her work on the X-ray diffraction images of DNA while at King's College London, particularly Photo 51, taken by her student Raymond Gosling, which led to the discovery of the DNA double helix for which Francis Crick, James Watson, and Maurice Wilkins…
Photo 51, showing X-ray diffraction pattern of DNA
Cartoon explanation of how Photo 51 captured the double helix structure of DNA.