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Rosalind Franklin

1920–1958 · United Kingdom · 20th century

Produced X-ray diffraction images of DNA, including Photo 51, that were crucial for determining its double-helix structure.

Fields

Biochemistry and biomedical chemistry

Related topics

DNA and RNA structure

DNA stores information in a paired double helix; RNA shares the nucleotide backbone but often forms diverse single-stranded folds.

Chemists in the same field

Peter D. Mitchell (1920)Robert Bruce Merrifield (1921)Frederick Sanger (1918)Jens C. Skou (1918)Paul D. Boyer (1918)John Warcup Cornforth (1917)