The best quotes from women in science to inspire more girls to grow up to be scientists. ... it is based on fact, experience and experiment." — Rosalind Franklin, Chemist and X-ray Crystallographer.

In his memoir, Watson implied that Franklin didn't know what she had in her crystallographic image, let alone what to do with it. He alleged that Franklin -- when it came to assessing the DNA form ...

The family of Rosalind Franklin, the British scientist whose pioneering work is being celebrated in a new Nicole Kidman play, say she would be "astonished" to be cast as a feminist icon because ...

James Watson and Francis Crick revealed the structure of DNA — the genetic instructions in all living things — 70 years ago in the journal Nature. Watson and Crick could not have succeeded ...

Historians have long debated the role that Dr. Franklin played in identifying the double helix. A new opinion essay argues that she was an “equal contributor.” By Emily Anthes On April 25 ...

Her name was Rosalind Franklin, and the story of her triumph over sexism and rise to scientific greatness is made even more remarkable by the fact that she lived only 37 years. In Franklin’s day ...