Who was Rosalind Franklin?

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Meave60
Oct 21, 2015

Rosalind Franklin was a chemist who performed X-ray crystallography on DNA and determined the double helix structure of DNA.

Explanation:

James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1962 for their work in determining the structure of DNA and its significance.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1962/

Rosalind Franklin did not receive the Nobel Prize because she had died of cancer before the Nobel Prize was awarded, and the Nobel Prize is not awarded posthumously.

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