Thursday's Google Doodle honors Rosalind Franklin, the pioneering scientist famous for taking some of the first and best images of DNA in the early 1950s, and for being screwed over by the sexism ...

Both proteins and nucleic acids, like DNA and RNA, had proven difficult to analyze with X-ray diffraction, and Rosalind’s skills were sought to bolster the unit’s existing crystallography group.

Rosalind Franklin 1920 - 1958. ... Franklin made marked advances in x-ray diffraction techniques with DNA. She adjusted her equipment to produce an extremely fine beam of x-rays.

Google's doodle represents Franklin gazing at the double helix structure of DNA with an image of the X-ray diffraction image of DNA (known as Photo 51) at the end. Updated 7/25 at 12:15 a.m. PT to ...

Franklin began postdoctoral studies in 1947 in Paris, where she perfected the technique of taking X-ray diffraction photographs. She moved to a position at King’s College London in 1950 to study ...

Rosalind Franklin's X-ray images allowed James Watson and Francis Crick to decipher DNA's double-helix shape, before the pair told a Cambridge pub: 'We have discovered the secret of life'.

Rosalind Franklin the Scientist. On the centenary of her birth, ... An X-ray diffraction image of DNA taken by Rosalind Franklin and her student Raymond Gosling in 1952.

Renaissance Theaterworks performs "Photograph 51," which explores the life of pioneering DNA researcher Rosalind Franklin. ... using X-ray diffraction to take three-dimensional images of molecular ...

Rosalind Franklin 1920 - 1958. 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. ...