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 * Rosalind Franklin**
 * Rosalind Franklin was a famous British Crystallographer.

Birth **Death**
 * [[image:TCM_london_3.jpg width="266" height="224" align="right"]] Rosalind Franklin was born on the 25,of July in 1920 in London.
 * She died of ovarian cancer the summer of 1956 in London.

What Did She Do ?
 * She was a Crystallgrapher which is a person that studies the formation and properties of crystals.
 * She also studied the structer of DNA which is the shape of a basic helical ( spiral shaped) and the structer of the tobacco mosaic virus.

Career >         Fun Facts
 * When she 37 she worked as an assistant to John Randall at king's college at Cambridge along side with Maurice Wilkins. Which the following she usded the resaerch to discribe the basic helical or spiral D.N.A. molecule. While she was dieing of cacer 3 guys named Francis  Crick and James Watson and Maurice Wilkins were awarded a Nobel prize in 1962 for physiology or medicine for determining the structure of a D.N.A which many scientist thought she should have been with thembut her work was still not recconized .  Working in Paris from 1947 to 1950, she gained skill in using X-ray. From 1953 until her death on April 16, 1958, Franklin worked at the crystallography laboratory of Birkbeck College, London. There she published her earlier work on coals and helped determine the structure of the tobacco mosaic virus which is a type of palnt diseases that affects plants pruduction and qualtiy.Then she got robbed agian were they stole her idea agian winning 2 nobel prize.
 * Rosalind won a scholarship to Newnham College, Cambridge.
 * She joined the British Coal Utilization Research Association in 1942.
 * She was never maried.
 * She joined the British Coal Utilization Research Association in 1942.

Citations
 * Balchin,Jon Science 100 Essential Scientist. New York. Enchanted Lion Books,2003.print.
 * Marilyn Ogilivie, Joy Harvey the Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science New York . Routledge. 2000. print