Rosalind Franklin and DNA
Rosalind Franklin..maybe you know the name but.. who is? She was born in July 25,1920... she was an English chemist and X- ray crystallographer who made contributions to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA and RNA. In 1938, she graduated of "Physics, mat, and chemistry" in "University of Cambridge" in Newnham College …and took a job with the British Coal Utilization Research Association. Then, she worked in Laboratoire Central des Services Chimiques de l'Etat, here she learned X-rays diffraction techniques that would take her to know “the secret of live” (the structure of DNA) . In 1951, she decided to move back to London to advance her scientific career, she was making progress in studying DNA. In another hand, Watson and Crick were working on a model-based approach to trying to discover the structure of the DNA molecule. Franklin did not know Watson and Crick so much and never truly collaborated with them. She went to the Birkbeck la...