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 lab to work on the structure of tobacco mosaic virus and published a lot of papers on the subject but unfortunately she died from cancer in 1958.
In 1962, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Watson, Crick, and Wilkins for solving the structure of DNA, without any recognition to Rosalind Franklin, that despite not working directly with them, equally contributed significantly to the study of DNA :(
I think that I admire her because, despite not being recognized in the prize, she was able to achieve many things in an era where perhaps women were not taken very much into account!! :D


Comments

  1. FranciaJuly 28, 2018 at 10:09 PM

    It's sad and unfair that she wasn't recognized! :(

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  2. AltairJuly 28, 2018 at 10:17 PM

    She is an inspiring woman and it is disappointing that she has not been recognized

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  3. paula martinezJuly 29, 2018 at 3:08 PM

    It's s sad that she made such an important contribution and that she wasn't recognized while she lived.

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  4. ArielJuly 29, 2018 at 4:37 PM

    Rosalind Franklin is a part of numerous people that just know their contribution to the science and the world.

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