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             Rosalind Franklin was born in London, England on July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twenty. She was raised in a well-to-do Jewish family and that provided her with an exceptional educational back round in Physics and Chemistry at St. Paul's Girls' School and Cambridge University. Franklin provided critical information leading to the discovery of DNA (which she received no credit for because of her death from the battle with cancer in 1958). She discovered the sugar-phosphate backbone on the outside of DNA. That was the gateway to discovering the basis of the DNA structure. Rosalind also researched the structure of plant viruses and the poliovirus. She explained the basic structure of the DNA molecule. Three people that were most influenced by Franklins work are Watson, Crick, and Wilkins. They used her discoveries to build a correct and detailed description of DNA's structure in 1953. Rosalind was soon diagnosed with ovarian cancer and died two years later. Just!
             after her death, Watson, Crick, and Wilkins received the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine. It is a
             great mystery whether the offering of the Prize was held off until Franklin's death because of sexist issues. Franklin was probably most influenced by a man named John Randall and J.D. Bernal. She crossed paths with Randall in 1951 after receiving a degree from Cambridge University while searching for work. It was in his lab where she mastered the art of taking X-ray photographs (using X-ray crystallography to map the locations of atoms in the DNA molecule) of DNA. J.D. Bernal supplied his lab to her at Birkbeck College where she studied viruses. Rosalind Franklin, in a major way, has contributed to today's understanding of genetics. If it weren't for her, heredity would be a foreign word to scientists in today's day and age. We would not know what a model of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) looked like, its compos...

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