Rosalind, second on right, holding her sister Jenifer's hand - who would follow her sister to Newnham College, Cambridge Rosalind Franklin was one of five siblings who grew up in London.

Despite Newnham College having been at Cambridge since 1871, the university refused to accept women as full members until 1948, seven years after Franklin earned the title of a degree in chemistry.

She excelled academically, attending St Paul's Girls' School, later Newnham College, Cambridge, where she studied chemistry Franklin's most famous work involved X-ray diffraction images of DNA ...

Franklin was born on July 25, 1920, in London, to a wealthy Jewish family who valued education and public service. At age 18, she enrolled in Newnham Women's College at Cambridge University, where ...

Rosalind was born on July 25, 1920, in London. She pursued a degree in physical chemistry at Newnham College, Cambridge. It was during her tenure at King’s College, London, that she contributed ...

James Watson and Francis Crick revealed the structure of DNA — the genetic instructions in all living things — 70 years ago in the journal Nature. Watson and Crick could not have succeeded ...

Rosalind Franklin 1920 ... War broke out in Europe in 1939 and Franklin stayed at Cambridge. ... She was invited to King's College in London to join a team of scientists studying living cells.

At 17, Rosalind Franklin passed the Cambridge entrance examination, gaining admission to the prestigious women-only Newnham College. However, though women could study there, they were unable to gain ...

Franklin, from the King’s College team, made an X-ray diffraction image of DNA with her graduate student Raymond Gosling, which is known as Photograph 51. This showed that DNA had a helix shape.

British scientist Rosalind Franklin was “an equal contributor” in the discovery of DNA structure and not a “victim”, according to scientists. Matthew Cobb, a professor of zoology at the University of ...

Rosalind, second on right, holding her sister Jenifer's hand - who would follow her sister to Newnham College, Cambridge Rosalind Franklin was one of five siblings who grew up in London.

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 ...