... College in London, there was a woman named Rosalind Franklin that was creating the world's best X-ray diffraction photos of the DNA. Of the four DNA researchers only she had university degrees in chemistry. She died of cancer in 1958, at the age of 37. In 1962 the Nobel Prize, was given to Watson, Crick and Wilkins. Crick said, if Franklin had lived, "It would have been impossible to give the prize to Maurice and not to her" because "she did the key experimental work." Maurice Wilkins plays a small part in this discovery. He and Rosalind did not get on very well and this probably slowed down their process. With a lot of work time and partnership, these scientists discovered the structure of DNA. DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleic acid. It is made up of nucleic acids that contain deoxyribose (sugar), that consist of complex molecules, that are in ...

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