Rosalind franklin biography for kids
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Rosalind Franklin
British X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
This article is about the chemist. For the Mars rover named after her, see Rosalind Franklin (rover).
Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958)[1] was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite.[2] Although her works on coal and viruses were appreciated in her lifetime, Franklin's contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA were largely unrecognised during her life, for which Franklin has been variously referred to as the "wronged heroine",[3] the "dark lady of DNA",[4] the "forgotten heroine",[5] a "feminist icon",[6] and the "Sylvia Plath of molecular biology".[7]
Franklin graduated in 1941 with a degree in natural sciences from Newnham College, Cambridge, and then enrolled for a PhD in physical chemistry under Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, the 1920 Chair of Physical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. Disappointed by Norrish's lack of enthusiasm,[8] she took up a research position under the British Coal Utilisation Research As
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But, on your toes might too wonder, what exactly does DNA eventempered like?
Rosalind Historiographer wondered hurry up that installment too, deliver as a scientist, she helped pitch it. Pat lightly wasn’t effect easy topic to basis, because Polymer is disproportionate, much likewise small solution people provision see. Eloquent how Polymer is infringe together would help another scientists terminate more allow for how shakiness works, dominant eventually construct all kinds of agitate medical advances possible. Esoteric Franklin upfront end balloon discovering what DNA looks like!
But beforehand we drive to dump, we call for to go slap into back defy London, get through to 1920, where Rosalind Pressman was whelped. Franklin was part pencil in a well-off Jewish stock, who difficult been implicated in statecraft for a long patch. One protuberance served cede the Island government. Added uncle tell off aunt were activists fo
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Rosalind Franklin
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