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Message: <blockquote data-quote="imhotep" data-source="post: 29298255" data-attributes="member: 562115">Pioneer Molecular Biologist - ROSALIND ELSIE FRANKLINBorn: London, July 25, 1920 Died: London, April 16, 1958There is probably no other woman scientist with as much controversy surrounding her life and work as Rosalind Franklin. Franklin was responsible for much of the research and discovery work that led to the understanding of the structure of Deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA.Between 1951 and 1953 Rosalind Franklin came very close to solving the DNA structure. She was beaten to publication by Crick and Watson in part because of the friction between Wilkins (who was another scientist working in the same lab, as explained in the video) and herself. At one point, Wilkins showed Watson one of Franklin's crystallographic portraits of DNA. When he saw the picture, the solution became apparent to him, and the results went into an article in Nature almost immediately. Franklin's work did appear as a supporting article in the same issue of the journal.A debate about the amount of credit due to Franklin continues. What is clear is that she did have a meaningful role in learning the structure of DNA and that she was a scientist of the first rank. Franklin moved to J. D. Bernal's lab at Birkbeck College, where she did very fruitful work on the tobacco mosaic virus. She also began work on the polio virus. In the summer of 1956, Rosalind Franklin became ill with ovarian cancer. She died less than two years later. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/sad.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":(" title="Sad    :(" data-shortname=":(" />[MEDIA=youtube]GbZ_lUY8iWs[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

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