Health & Environment
Remembering Rosalind Franklin and Her Crucial Contribution to DNA Structure
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THE BRIEF
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British chemist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin joined King’s College London in 1951 to study molecular structures using X-ray diffraction.
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Franklin and her PhD student Raymond Gosling captured the high-clarity X-ray diffraction image known as Photograph 51 in May 1952.
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Her foundational experimental data on the B form of DNA proved vital for discovering the double helix structure, though her contributions went unacknowledged for decades.