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Age 18 - Enrolled at Newnham Women's College at Cambridge University

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Age 18 - Enrolled at Newnham Women's College at Cambridge University

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Graduated Newnham College in 1941 and received a fellowship to do research in physical chemistry at Cambridge

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Graduated Newnham College in 1941 and received a fellowship to do research in physical chemistry at Cambridge

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Served as a London air raid warden during WW2

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Served as a London air raid warden during WW2

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1942 - Gave up her fellowship to work for the British Coal Utilization Research Association where she studied the physical chemistry of carbon and coal

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1942 - Gave up her fellowship to work for the British Coal Utilization Research Association where she studied the physical chemistry of carbon and coal

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This research became her Ph.D. thesis

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1945 - Received her doctorate from Cambridge University

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1945 - Received her doctorate from Cambridge University

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State Chemical Laboratory in Paris - Her workplace

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1946 to 1950 - Moved to Paris and perfected her life's work: X-ray crystallography

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1946 to 1950 - Moved to Paris and perfected her life's work: X-ray crystallography

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1951 - Moved back to London to accept a job at the Biophysical Laboratory at King's College

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1951 - Moved back to London to accept a job at the Biophysical Laboratory at King's College

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Her goal was to find the structure of DNA

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Photo 51, an X-ray diffraction picture of a DNA molecule

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1952 - Obtained Photo 51, the most famous X-ray image of DNA

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1952 - Obtained Photo 51, the most famous X-ray image of DNA

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DNA is made of two helicoidal strands, one opposite the other with bases in the center — basically a twisted ladder

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Unknown to her, James Watson and Francis Crick saw her unpublished data, including Photo 51 shown to Watson by Maurice Wilkins, her colleague

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Unknown to her, James Watson and Francis Crick saw her unpublished data, including Photo 51 shown to Watson by Maurice Wilkins, her colleague

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Francis Crick and James Watson were trying building a model of the DNA molecule at Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University

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Watson and Crick's findings were published in the 1953 issue of "Nature" and so were Franklin's

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Watson and Crick's findings were published in the 1953 issue of "Nature" and so were Franklin's

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Her findings were a postscript simply confirming Watson and Crick's findings, but Franklin's unacknowledged contribution was critical

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1953 to 1958 - Moved to Birkbeck College to work at the Crystallography Laboratory

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1953 to 1958 - Moved to Birkbeck College to work at the Crystallography Laboratory

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She began working on the structure of the tobacco mosaic virus

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In the last years of her life, she traveled around the world talking about coal and virus structure

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In the last years of her life, she traveled around the world talking about coal and virus structure

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While traveling in the U.S. in 1956, she discovered a lump on her abdomen that turned out to be ovarian cancer

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While traveling in the U.S. in 1956, she discovered a lump on her abdomen that turned out to be ovarian cancer

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Her work with X-rays may have led to her early death from the radiation

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James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for their work on DNA

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James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for their work on DNA

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Many believe that if she was alive when they were awarded the Nobel Prize, she would have shared the stage with them