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rosalind franklin

English chemist and X-ray crystallographer, Rosalind Elsie Franklin
Jack Stephens, July 24, 2020

Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-1958) was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose research was foundational to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA, for which three male colleagues at King's College London won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962.


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