2006-11-02 04:46:05 · 2 answers · asked by yung_mobbn33 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
She discovered the structure of DNA -- she did the x-ray studies and got the first ever picture of DNA. However, she didn't know how to interpret the data. One of Rosalind Franklin's colleagues (I think his name was Wilkins) gave her x-ray data, without her permission to Watson and Crick who were able to interpret it. Watson and Crick had tried to get a picture of the DNA for several years but had failed. Franklin died of cancer in her thirties. Watson, Crick, and Wilkins got the Nobel prize for determining the structure of DNA (which would have been impossible without the x-ray pictures obtained by Franklin), but Franklin didn't because she had passed away and Nobel Prize is given only to living people.
2006-11-02 08:26:02 · answer #1 · answered by Mary 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/franklin.html
http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/BC/Rosalind_Franklin.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bofran.html
2006-11-02 12:51:30 · answer #2 · answered by smarties 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋