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Rosalind was born into a prominent British Jewish family. Her bank merchant father Ellis Arthur Franklin and mother Muriel Frances Waley gave birth to Rosalind as well as her two brothers Roland and Colin Franklin

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Rosalind was born on July 25, 1920 in Notting Hill, London, United Kingdom and died due to ovarian cancer away on April 16, 1958  in Chelsea, London, United Kingdom

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Rosalind started at St Paul's Girls' School from 1931–1938, then moved on to Newnham College, Cambridge from 1938–1941, where she finished with a Ph.d in physical chemistry with her thesis "The physical chemistry of solid organic colloids with special reference to coal." at University of Cambridge in 1945, where she learned crystallography and X-ray diffraction, which were techniques that she applied to DNA fibers.

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Rosalind was smart from a young age and knew by the age of 15 that she wanted to be a scientist. An influence that played an important roll in her research was crystallographer Jacques Mering, who taught her X-ray diffraction while working with Rosalind after she was appointed at the Laboratoire Central des Services Chimiques de l'Etat in Paris.

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Rosalinds research led to the discovery of "the secret of life" (the structure of DNA), in addition Rosalind pioneered the use of X-rays to create images of crystalized solids.
(Photo 51)↓

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Rosalind used a technique called X-ray crystallography to find out the 3D shape of molecules. She also gave new insights into the first virus that was ever discovered (the Tobacco Mosaic Virus) after her work on this molecule.  After her death, she was confirmed correct about her claim that the virus might be hollow and only consist of one strand of RNA.

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James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins got the Nobel Prize In 1962 for their discovery of the shape of DNA. The crucial information that helped them figure this out was Rosalind Franklins Photo 51, which was her famous X-ray diffraction image of DNA. Seeing this photo caused Watson and Crick to realize that DNA must have a double helical structure.