Rosalind Franklin Comic
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- Yes, I can hear perfectly.
- Rosalind Franklin was born in London in 1920, and she excelled in academics and sports. However, she always knew that a path in music wasn't for her....
- Rosalind, are you sure you aren't hard of hearing?
- Well, it doesn't sound like it!
- By the time she was 15, Rosalind knew she wanted a career in science,
- She went to university and worked with the British Coal Utilization Research Association.
- Why did I choose to study coal, of all things?
- She began working with Jacques Mering, a scientist who created models and images of molecules by exposing it to x-rays. This would be important for Rosalind later...
- Rosalind moved to a different university and worked with Raymond Gosling and Maurice Wilkins to discover the structure of DNA. Rosalind had a good relationship with Gosling, but not so much with WIlkins....
- Using x-ray diffraction, the technique Rosalind had studied with Mering, she, Wilkins, and Gosling successfully captured an image of DNA'a structure.
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