British crystallographer at King's College London who took X-ray photographs of DNA fibres that were crucial to determining the molecule's structure. She died in 1958.
Franklin worked at King's College London alongside Maurice Wilkins, taking X-ray diffraction images of DNA. Data from her work was shared without her permission with Francis Crick and James Watson, who went on to determine the double-helix structure in 1953. Crick, Watson and Wilkins shared the Nobel prize in medicine in 1962; Franklin had died four years earlier.
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