Rosalind Franklin always liked facts. She was logical and precise, and impatient with things that were otherwise. She decided to become a scientist when she was 15. She passed the examination for ...

Rosalind Franklin was so much more than the ‘wronged heroine’ of DNA One hundred years after her birth, it’s time to reassess the legacy of a pioneering chemist and X-ray crystallographer.

In 1951, a young British scientist began a key scientific investigation. Rosalind Franklin produced an X-ray photograph that helped show the structure of DNA. Show more In 1951, Rosalind Franklin ...