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Rosalind Franklin’s role in DNA discovery gets a new twist By: Maddie Burakoff, The Associated Press Posted: 11:10 AM CDT Tuesday, Apr. 25, 2023 Last Modified: 1:20 PM CDT Tuesday, Apr. 25, 2023 ...
In "The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix," Dr. Howard Markel tells the complicated tale of what he calls one of the most ...
The British-built Mars rover scheduled to be launched in 2020 has been named after English scientist Rosalind Franklin, who helped unlock the molecular structure of DNA.
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 ...
Rosalind Elsie Franklin, the British chemist and crystallographer, in 1955. She died in 1958. Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group, via Getty Images To the Editor: ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The discovery of DNA’s double helix structure 70 years ago opened up a world of new science — and also sparked disputes over who contributed what and who deserves credit ...
Meanwhile, Franklin — an expert in X-ray imaging — was studying the molecules at King’s College in London, along with a scientist named Maurice Wilkins.