Franklin’s experiments, in which she successfully used X-ray crystallography to create images of DNA, became the basis for James Watson and Francis Crick’s groundbreaking 1953 discovery of the ...

Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl's 1957 demonstration of DNA replication is considered "the most beautiful experiment in biology." Their density-shift demonstrations not only have stood the test of ...

July 25 is the birthday of Rosalind Franklin, the almost-forgotten woman scientist who was part of the team that unravelled the mysteries of human DNA, but she did not get deserved credit for it ...

With the Signer DNA, Franklin was able to exploit a discovery ... (X-ray diffraction experiments in the 1930s had inadvertently used a mixture of the A and B forms of DNA, yielding muddy patterns ...

“We should be thinking of Rosalind Franklin, not as the victim of DNA, but as an equal contributor and collaborator to the structure,” Dr. Comfort said. Other experts said that the new ...

Rosalind Franklin, a scientist at the University of London, had already documented the helical nature of DNA when Watson and ...

Besides this confluence of theory and experiment — which Watson and ... was so much more than the ‘wronged heroine’ of DNA Franklin eventually reconciled with Crick and Watson.

Rosalind Franklin should be seen as an equal contributor to solving the structure of DNA, and not as a victim of theft, a pair of academics argue in an article to mark the 70th anniversary of ...

whose research laid the foundation for the modern understanding of DNA. Franklin was passed over for the prize in physiology or medicine when it was awarded in 1962 to biologists James Watson ...

In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in ...