Remembering Rosalind Franklin: Rosalind Franklin & the Discovery of the Double Helix Structure of DNA

This biography follows Rosalind Franklin from her childhood curiosity about science to her work as an X-ray crystallography expert. In 1952, while working in a Cambridge University laboratory, she made Photo 51 and recorded a careful analysis. Her image and analysis were later used in research on DNA’s double-helix structure, but she was not consulted. Three male scientists received the Nobel Prize ten years later; Franklin had died four years before.