Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Franklind was born on 25 of July of 1920in England. She was a biophysicist and crystallographer and author of important contributions to the understanding of the structures of DNA, viruses, carbon and graphite.

Rosalind graduated from the university of Cambridge in 1941, having to fight the paternal opposition.

She died on 16 of April in 1950, at the age of 37 in London of an ovarian cancer

Franklin is mainly remembered for the so called photography 51, the image of DNA obtained by X-ray diffraction, which served as the basis for the hypothesis of the double helical structure of DNA.

This theory appeared in the publication of the article by James Watson and Francis Crick of 1953

we know that the discovery was very important for the investigation to help the humanity.