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Rosalind is born in Notting Hill, London to her loving parents Muriel and Elsie Franklin.
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Rosalind was sent to the Lindores School for Young Ladies boarding school at age 9.
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Rosalind begins at St. Paul's Girls School. She excelled at sports, science, and Latin. She left with a scholarship of 30 euros a year for three years.
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Rosalind goes to Newnham College. She excelled in physical chemistry.
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Germany invades Poland, causing Britain and France to declare war on Germany.
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Rosalind begins to work at BCURA (British Coal Utilization Research Association). She studied the structure of coal and graphite using x-ray crystallography techniques.
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Germany surrenders after the Western Allies and the Soviet Union invade Berlin.
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Rosalind moves to Paris to pursue her work with x-ray crystallography. She used this technique to study the structures of radon and crystals. She worked at the Laboratoire Central des Services Chimiques de l'Etat alongside Jacques Mering.
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Rosalind Franklin begins at King's College in London, working with Maurice Wilkins to study the structure of DNA.
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Rosalind takes her famous image called "Photo-51."
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Maurice Wilkins steal's Rosalind's image of DNA and shows it to James Watson and Francis Crick. This, however, was done without Rosalind's permission.
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Rosalind studies the structures of a virus called TMV, Watson and Crick begin to study viruses and RNA as well.
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Rosalind is diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She had two tumors removed, but the cancer came back later in her life.
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Rosalind died of ovarian cancer at the age of 38.
