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She was a British chemist born in London whose work was key in the comprehension of DNA and RNA as well as virus, carbon and graphite -
She got a degree in Natural Sciences in Newnham College, Cambridge and she started a doctorate in Physical chemistry. -
The British Society for the Investigation of the Use of Carbon offered her an investigation vacancy, starting her work about carbon. -
In Paris he became a crystallographer of X-rays in the Central Laboratory of Chemical Services of the State. -
She started working in the London King's College, where she took pictures of DNA for the first time ever. These pictures allowed scientists to learn more about the structure of DNA. -
She died in Chelsea because of cancer probably caused by her exposure to radiation. -
Watson, Crick and Wilkins shared a Nobel Prize in medicine because of the pictures without permission of Rosalind Franklin.