Rosalind Franklin

My name is Rosalind Elsie Franklin, I was born on July 25, 1920 in Notting Hill, London. I studied in Lindores School for Young Ladies in Sussex, and St Paul's Girls' School, London. Later, after school, I went to Newnham Collage, Cambridge to study Natural Sciences Tripos and graduated in 1941. On 1945 I finished my Phd in "The physical chemistry of solid organic colloids with special reference to coal " thanks to the British Coal Utilization Research Association (BCURA) the offered me a job as a researcher back in 1942. In 1951 I became a research associate in King's Collage London where I studied the X-ray diffraction images of DNA which lead to the discovery of the double helix structure of this molecule. I died the 16th of April of 1958 at the age of 37 because of ovarian cancer.