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Rosalind Franklin centenary: ‘She would have been totally amazed’ – BBC News
The sister of Rosalind Franklin says she would be surprised to be a “feminist icon” 100 years on.
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Rosalind Franklin played an integral role in the discovery of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
Scientist Rosalind Franklin would have been “totally amazed” that 100 years after her birth she is being commemorated, according to her sister.
She is best known for her pioneering work which guided Francis Crick and James Watson to unlock DNA’s secrets.
But far more of her short career was spent unravelling the molecular structures of …
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