Rosalind Elsie Franklin (July 25th 1920 - April 16th 1958) is a molecular biologist British which took part in discovered of DNA.

Biography

Of 1947 with 1950 it works in France with the central Laboratoire of the chemical services of the State , where it learned the techniques from diffraction of the X-rays.

Of return to the the United Kingdom in 1951, it has a station with the King' S College where it applies the diffraction of x-rays to biological materials. It carries out several radiographies with the x-rays of the DNA, which will be shown without its knowledge by Maurice Wilkins with James Watson