Rosalind Franklin Research Paper

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Rosalind Elsie Franklin was born in 1920 and lived with her Jewish family in Notting Hill, London, England. She deliberately attended several schools throughout her childhood where she exceeded in science as well as many other classes. At the age of 15 Rosalind had made up her mind to become a scientist, although her family's background was full of public service and philanthropy.
Enrolling in college at Cambridge University was a challenge for Franklin since her father did not believe in college education for women. Her father was so dead set on this, that he would not help her pay her tuition. Luckily, her aunt stepped in to help her pay her dues where Rosalind's mother stood by her side until her father gave in and helped her out. Franklin graduated in 1941 and soon after started for her doctorate. Her work focused on a wartime problem since there where a war outbreak in …show more content…

She began working on x-ray diffraction, using x-rays to create images of crystallized solids, where she did not only study crystals but studied complex, unorganized matter such as biochemical molecules.
She spent 3 years in France, and in 1950 she decided she needed to go back to England if she was going to have a scientific career. She was invited to Kings College to study living cells with a group of scientist where the leader assigned her to work on DNA with a graduate student, but Franklin took it on as her own project.
She adjusted her equipment to release extremely fine beams of x-rays which extracted finer DNA fibers than ever before where she arranged them into parallel bundles. She studied the fibers in humid conditions which allowed her to discover the many of the crucial findings to DNA structure. Wilkins shared Rosalind's data, without her knowledge, with James Watson and Francis Crick at Cambridge and the two of them soon shot off like a bullet, publishing the proposed structure of DNA in March,

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