If you were to try and explain what crystallography was to a 10-year-old you would probably say something like, "crystallography tells us what makes crystals the way they are which helps us figure out other stuff around us."

If you were to try and explain what biochemistry was to a 10-year-old you would probably say something like, "biochemistry tells us what is happening in us and how we are who we are."

Jerome Karle

Isabella Karle

John Jacob Abel

Elmer L. Gaden

If you were to try and explain what physical chemistry is to a 10-year-old you would probably say something like, "physical chemistry is the study of how physics and chemistry are together."

Richard Abegg

Charles Coulson

Without Franklin taking that picture we wouldn't have known that DNA is a double helix and that would play a part in how people would learn about DNA. Her work really helped people who do research on DNA.

She wrote a thesis called “The physical chemistry of solid organic colloids with special reference to coal”. In this, she was able to classify coals and accurately predict their performance for fuel purposes and for the production of wartime devices such as gas masks.

Since she was crystallographic, she did other work in it. She did a lot of work with discovering the structures of different carbons. The work she did by revealing the structures of different carbons laid the groundwork for new industrial uses of carbon and helped the development of heat-resistant materials.