Rosalind Franklin (July 25, 1920 — April 16, 1958) was an English chemist and crystallographer whose research made an enormous contribution to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite. Like many women in the scientific field, much of what she achieved was not acknowledged during her lifetime but recognized only after her tragic death from cancer at a young age.
Quote: “You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralizing invention of man, something apart from real life, and which must be cautiously guarded and kept separate from everyday existence. But science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience, and experiment.”
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