· At King's College London, Rosalind Franklin obtained images of DNA using Xray crystallography, an idea first broached by Maurice Wilkins Franklin's images allowed James Watson and Francis Crick to create their famous twostrand, or doublehelix, model In 1962 Watson (b 1928), Crick (1916–04), and Wilkins (1916–04) jointly · Rosalind Franklin was a legendary research scientist whose discoveries were essential to establishing the doublehelix shape of DNA Homegirl literally took a picture that established that this was the probable shape, and got no credit This is the life and tragic death of Rosalind FranklinAnd her mother was Muriel Frances Waley, daughter of a lawyer Rosalind was the second of their five children
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