A crucial contribution. Rosalind Franklin made a crucial contribution to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, but some would say she got a raw deal. Biographer Brenda Maddox called ...

Her name is usually mentioned in connection with that of two others: Francis Crick and James Watson. Rosalind Franklin is often by-passed, overlooked. In his book Double Helix, James Watson ...

When it comes to her place in the history of the double helix's delineation, Rosalind Franklin has not received fair treatment. Or so maintains Dr. Lynne Osman Elkin, a professor of biological ...

Rosalind Franklin always liked facts. She was logical and precise, and impatient with things that were otherwise. She decided to become a scientist when she was 15. She passed the examination for ...

Rosalind Franklin and Dorothy Hodgkin made important breakthroughs in science, including many discoveries that are vital to our lives today. Performing early X-ray analysis on the DNA molecule.