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| Google celebrates the 50th anniversary of the discovery in 2003. |
... was taken by Rosalind Franklin in 1953 using X-ray crystallography. Here's the photo:
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| Crystallographic photo of Sodium Thymonucleate, Type B. "Photo 51." May 1952. |
She did not share in the Nobel Prize which was awarded to Drs. James D. Watson and and Francis Crick in 1962 for providing the first accurate characterization of the molecule as a double helix. At least she wasn't bitter--she had died in 1958 at the age of 37, of ovarian cancer.
I've learned about Dr. Franklin through reading Ray Kurzweil's latest book, How to Create A Mind, and I've learned that there is a book written about her called Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA.
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