EUROPEAN SCIENTIST

FAMOUS SCIENTISTS: ROSALIND FRANKLIN

Rosalind Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958)  was born to a prominent British Jewish family, Franklin was educated at a private day school at Norland Place in West London, Lindores School for Young Ladies in Sussex, and St Paul's Girls' School.

 She was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer who made contributions to the understanding of the fine molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal and graphite.Although her works on coal and viruses were appreciated in her lifetime, her DNA work posthumously achieved profound impact as DNA plays a central role in biology, as it carries the genetic information that is passed from parents to their offspring.