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Rosalind Franklin was born on July 25, 1920, in London, England.
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Rosalind at the age of 18 enrolled at Cambridge University in the Newnham Women's College. She began studying physics and chemistry.
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In 1941, Rosalind received the award for Second Class Honors in her finals. This lead her to working at the British Coal Utilization Research Association and studied coal's porosity. This work began what would later be her Ph.D. thesis.
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In 1946, Rosalind made the big move to Paris, France, where she continued to work on her X-ray crystallography skills alongside Jacques Mering. This is where her understanding of the DNA helix began. She also discovered that X-rays could capture images of crystallized solids.
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Rosalind returned to London and began her job at King's College. She worked alongside James Watson, to build the DNA model.
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It was in 1951, that Ms Franklin discovered the DNA structure using X-ray diffraction on DNA fibers.
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It was in 1958, when Rosalind Franklin died from ovarian cancer. Sadly at the time she was given no recognition for her amazing findings that led to Watson and Crick's publication and Nobel Prize win.
