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1 day ago · In 1962, four years after Franklin’s death, James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the famous double helix. Wilkins, a colleague of Franklin, gave Watson and Crick several images that she produced before she published them. In his book years later, Watson actively downplayed Franklin’s role.
15 hours ago · Science, like many other fields, was a male-dominated domain in the 20th century, which led to Franklin facing sexism, sidelining and gender bias. It had been reported that while she worked with Maurice Wilkins on the imaging of DNA at King's College London, the latter passed on her data with Watson and Crick without her permission.
5 days ago · Rosalind Franklin, British scientist best known for her contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA. Franklin also contributed new insight on the structure of viruses, helping to lay the foundation for the field of structural virology. Learn about her life and career.
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- Rosalind Franklin discovered the density of DNA and, more importantly, established that the molecule existed in a helical conformation. Her work to...
- Rosalind Franklin contributed new insight on the structure of viruses, helping to lay the foundation for the field of structural virology. Her work...
- Rosalind Franklin’s involvement in cutting-edge DNA research was halted by her untimely death from cancer at age 37 in 1958. Franklin was diagnosed...
1 day ago · The Maurice Wilkins Centre, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Australian Parkinson's Mission, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW, Australia MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
1 day ago · Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) [1] was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite. [2] Although her works on coal and viruses were appreciated in her lifetime ...
1 day ago · Jul 25, 2024 |. By Danny Joe Robb, Michelle Gibbons. | JSTOR Daily. The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. The work of British chemist Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958) played an integral role in the discovery of the structure of DNA, but it took many years for Franklin’s contributions to be fully recognized. In 1962 ...
3 days ago · This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates by country. Listings for Economics refer to the related Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded 577 times to 889 recipients, of which 26 awards (all Peace Prizes) were to organizations.
