The Google celebrating 93rd birth day of British biophysicist and x-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin by doodle.
Her research led to the discovery of the structure of DNA.
Franklin born in Notting Hill, London on 25 July 1920.
Google home page display the second “o” in the doodle contains her image, while the “L” replaced with the DNA double helix.
Franklin also made significant contributions to understanding the molecular structures of RNA, viruses, coal and graphite.
During her DNA research, Franlin Worked at King’s College London under Maurice Wilkins.
He took some of her x-ray crystallography images without her permission and showed to his friends, Francis Crick and James Watson, who were also trying to discover the structure of DNA.
Wilkins, Crick and Watson were awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1962.
Crick later recognize that Franklin’s images were used to formulate their 1953 hypothesis regarding the structure of DNA.
The most significant of those images is known as photo 51, which is also the inspiration for an exhibition currently at Somerset House in London.
She died from ovarian cancer in April 1958, just 37 age.
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