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Rosalind Franklin was a famous British x-ray crystallographer and biophysicist who made great contributions in the understanding of fine molecular structures of DNA, coal, RNA, viruses and graphite.

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Her works in DNA achieved worldwide recognition because DNA plays a very important role in genetics and cell metabolism. The discovery of DNA structure helped her co-workers understand how genetic information passes from parents to their offspring. Rosalind was born on July 25, , in London. She was the elder daughter and the second child in a family of five children.

She did very well in science, physics, and chemistry. At the age of 15, she decided to become a scientist. Rosalind attended St. Here, she displayed great talent in chemistry and physics. In , she went to Newham College in Cambridge. In , she graduated and was later rewarded a scholarship to work on gas chromatography. Due to her great efforts in research, she was able to get her PhD degree from Cambridge in