Google doddle celebrates Rosalind Franklin’s 93rd Birthday
In a fitting tribute to one of the most prominent
contributors to the discovery of the DNA, Google has put up a personalized
doddle on Rosalind Franklin's 93rd birthday today.
Though she missed out on the Nobel Prize for her
contribution; her work that lead to X-ray diffraction images of DNA which
resulted in the discovery of the DNA double helix has been recognized and
appreciated since.
Franklin also contributed to the understanding of the molecular
structures of the RNA, viruses, coal and graphite. She led pioneering work on
the understanding of the polio virus as well.
Rosalind Franklin was a British biophysicist and X-ray
crystallographer, who for most part worked at King's College London. She died
of ovarian cancer at the age of 37 on April 16, 1958.
The Google doodle today
shows Franklin looking at the DNA double helix.
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