But Franklin wasn't just a supporting character in the DNA saga. She was the scaffolding ... (She died at 37 of ovarian cancer, likely due to the radiation exposure from her experiments). Her academic ...

A centrifuge was used to separate DNA molecules labeled with isotopes of different densities. This experiment revealed a pattern that supports the semiconservative model of DNA replication.

Rosalind Franklin, a scientist at the University of London, had already documented the helical nature of DNA when Watson and Crick accessed her unpublished data without permission and used it to ...

Still working at the Rockefeller Institute and building on an experiment ... Rosalind Franklin arrived at King's College London on 5 January 1951. Leaving coal research to work on DNA, moving ...

The leader of the team assigned her to work on DNA with a graduate student. Franklin's assumption was that it was her own project. The laboratory's second-in-command, Maurice Wilkins, was on ...

A previously overlooked letter and a news article that was never published, both written in 1953, add to other lines of evidence showing Rosalind Franklin was an equal contributor — not a victim — in ...

When Alan Garen asked Alfred Hershey for his idea of scientific happiness, Hershey replied, “To have one experiment that ... This volume, edited by Franklin Stahl, pays tribute to Hershey ...

Rosalind Franklin and Dorothy Hodgkin made important breakthroughs in science, including many discoveries that are vital to our lives today. Performing early X-ray analysis on the DNA molecule.