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Rosalind Franklin

            
             Rosalind Elise Franklin was born on July 25, 1920 in London, England, and died on April 16, 1958 in London, England of ovarian cancer at the young age of 37. Franklin perhaps died though without proper recognition of some of her achievements. Franklin decided at the young age of fifteen to become a scientist. In 1941, she graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge. The work for which did in 1942 at the British Coal Utilization Association where she made the essential studies of carbon and graphite microstructures. The work that she performed here was the groundwork for her doctorate from Cambridge University in 1945 in physical chemistry.
             For three years in Paris while she worked for the Laboratoire Central des Services Chiminques de L?Etat she learned X-ray diffraction techniques. After leaving Paris, she went back to England to work in the laboratory at King's College, Cambridge with John Randall. Here at Randall's lab would Franklin she run into Maurice Wilkes. Wilkes in 1962 would receive a Nobel Prize with James Watson and Francis Crick for the double-helix model of DNA. This was only four years after Franklin's death in 1958.
             Rosalind Franklin made considerable strides not only for women of her time but also for the future of modern science. Without Rosalind's X-ray, photographs Watson would never have solved the final piece of the puzzle to the DNA structure model. .
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1. Rosalind Franklin

... that helped to discover and solve the mysteries of DNA was Rosalind Franklin. Even though she had to struggle against a great deal of male ignorance in the scientific community, she still made an impact on the world of science. Born on July 25, 1920, Rosalind attended St. Paul Girl's School in London. Franklin and her four other siblings received an advantaged childhood because their ... spends her last days researching the structure of RNA viruses. She dies of ovarian cancer, in London, April 16, 1958 at the young age of 37. One cannot speak of Rosalind Franklin without mentioning some...

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2. Rosalind Elisie Franklin DNA

... and not imaginative- child, to King's College ""difficult,"" "intense,"" "austere- Rosy, to James Watson "clearly a silly "damned woman- playing a man's game. However, despite these age-old monotone portrayals, Rosalind Franklin is now more accurately depicted today. She was the genius who virtually solved the mystery of DNA structure by herself and was, in the end, cheated out of both life ... "though it lacked proofs, authorities, historical records, and credit to those "scientists on whose shoulders it was built."" Rosalind was not even alluded to until the next to last sentence. 3 Pa...

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3. double helix

... early 1950's, British biophysicist Francis Crick and American biochemist James D. Watson determined the three dimensioned structure deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) with the help of Maurice Wilkins and the test results from Rosalind Franklin's x-ray diffraction images.(Levine, 1997) A DNA molecule is really the blue print for the genetic, because it determines attributes of living things. With this major discovery came a great ... The acceptance was having a women scientist. He did not despise women, because he was a bit of a womanizer, but simply believed woman belonged in other areas of so...

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4. DNA

... use the same technique to study at DNA. This was not easy because DNA was difficult to crystallise. Two of the scientists who succeeded in overcoming the technical difficulties were Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins. Wilkins was the first to obtain crystals of pure DNA but these were crystals of the A form of DNA: this structure formed when little water is present ... James Watson and Francis Crick were working with atomic models at Cambridge. Not much was achieved until Watson went to Kings College to have a look at the picture taken by Rosalind Franklin. When Watson returned they ...

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5. DNA Mysteries And Miracles

... only two real competitors: Linus Pauling, a master physical chemist, and the very loosely formed alliance between Cavendish scientists James Watson and Francis Crick and King's College scientists Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin (A Twist of Fate). The Cavendish team, (having been embarrassed in April 1951 by Pauling beating them to the discovery of the structure of keratin), were determined not to let it ... political views" (A Twist of Fate). While this may have bought more time for the Cavendish/King's College team, they knew that Pauling would not be deterred. In May of 1952, Ro...

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6. The History of DNA Research

... new gate way for the scientists that follow after Chargaff. Next is arguably the biggest discovery in genetics today behind the actually discovery of DNA. Two researchers whose names were Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins successfully discovered the shape of DNA. They found this out by the ambition to take X-Ray pictures of DNA to better understand how DNA actually works. They ... results of a pattern that, contained rungs, like on a ladder between two strands that are aligned side by side, they then could prove that DNA was a helix shape. In addition to Franklin and Wilkins discove...

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7. The Double Helix

... the outside influence of many others in his scientific and personal worlds. One of the most inturiging characters throughout the book is that of Maurice Wilkin's assistant and antagonist, Rosylind Franklin. As I read, I found that much of Watson is revealed in the way that he relates to Rosy's character. He is a man of great passion and prejudice and many aspects of ... that she collected enabled them to build their models and shape their theory, which finally had to be corroborated by Rosy. Aaron Klug, the last student of Rosy's writes, "Rosylind Franklin made crucial contributions to ...

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8. Extracting DNA From Vegetables

... the first scientist to identify and isolate DNA. Thanks to his discovery, scientists have since made numerous groundbreaking discoveries involving DNA. One noteworthy trio being Jason Watson, Francis Crick, and Rosalind Franklin who discovered the double helix; the ladder in which determines our genetic mark up. Think of DNA as a computer programmer and your body as the computer. DNA is essentially the ... ...

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9. The Virtues of Diversity in Science and Society

... before, diversity brings the opportunity for new discoveries in research. While Caucasian men have dominated research in science for centuries, many prominent women and minorities and have had groundbreaking discoveries. Rosalind Franklin, a female British biologist and physicist, helped to discover the structure of DNA. Without her work, a lot about what we know about genetics would not have happened. William Cardozo, a black doctor ... ...

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