Rosalind Franklin
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Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 â 16 April 1958) was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer who made high-quality X-ray diffraction images of DNA, including the famous "Photo 51". She had some difficulties in working with male peers, notably Maurice Wilkins and James Watson. Watson referred to her as "Rosy". She left King College in late 1952 and left her scientific data to her successor. Photo 51 was of some use to Watson and Crick in their successful effort to determine the structure of DNA. Franklin published a paper with her assistant in the same edition of Nature in which Watson and Crick published their famous paper.[1]
Some activists make much of the significance of her work and her personality.