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John Finch. Kenneth Holmes. Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) [ 1 ] was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite. [ 2 ] Although her works on coal and viruses were ...
Rosalind Franklin and DNA is a biography of an English chemist Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958) written by her American friend Anne Sayre in 1975. Franklin was a physical chemist who made pivotal research in the discovery of the structure of DNA, known as "the most important discovery" in biology. [1][2] DNA itself had become "life's most famous ...
Her father enjoyed reading about science and filled the home with many books on popular science. [6] [7] When Doudna was in the sixth grade, he gave her a copy of James Watson's 1968 book on the discovery of the structure of DNA, The Double Helix, which was a major inspiration. [18] Doudna also developed her interest in science and mathematics ...
Barbara McClintock (June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992) was an American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927. There she started her career as the leader of the development of maize cytogenetics, the focus of her ...
Florence Ogilvy Bell (1 May 1913 – 23 November 2000 [ 3] ), later Florence Sawyer, was a British scientist who contributed to the discovery of the structure of DNA. She was an X-ray crystallographer in the lab of William Astbury. In 1938 they published a paper in Nature that described the structure of DNA as a "Pile of Pennies".
Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS [3][4] (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. He, James Watson, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins played crucial roles in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule. Crick and Watson's paper in Nature in 1953 laid the groundwork for ...
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin OM FRS HonFRSC [9][10] (née Crowfoot; 12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994) was a Nobel Prize -winning English chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of biomolecules, which became essential for structural biology. [9][11]
Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951) [1] was an African-American woman [4] whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line [A] and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific ...