Rosalind Franklin

She was born on July 25, 1920 in Notthin hill, London, UK.

  • She was a biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer. She help the humanity by understanding the chemical structure of the DNA, RNA, virusses, coal, and graphite.
  • By her discoveries. scientists could reserch about how the genes pass from parents to children
  • Since she was a little girl she had amaizing skills, she attended to St Paul's Girls' School.
  • She work as an assistant of reserch in the British Coal Utilisation Research Association.
  • She did a PH.D in Cambridge University, The physical chemistry of solid organic colloids with special reference to coal was her work.
  • When world war begun her house was a reffuge for jews.
  • She went to Newnham College, Cambridge in 1938 to study chemistry and natural science.
  • In 1953 she started her DNA reserch with Francis Crick and James D. Watson of the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge University.
  • Then she started working in Birkbeck College studying the Tobaco Mosaic Virus with x-ray crystallography.
  • In 1955 she had a paper published in the Tobaco Mosaic Virus, she discovered that all of it´s particles were all of the same lenghth.
  • On April 16 of 1558 she died with 37 years old , she died of bronchopneumonia, secondary carcinomatosis, and ovarian cancer.

Her legacy was her legendary dicovery of the DNA that helped science to develop the knolage we have today.