Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) was an English chemist and who made crucial contributions to the understanding of the structure of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite.
==Biography==
Rosalind Franklin was born in , London in 1920. In 1941, she graduated from the physical chemistry department at . Studying X-ray diffraction in Paris, Franklin began working on DNA fibers at alongside and in 1951. Although Franklin's fellow scientists were working on separate projects, Wilkins and Gosling were involved in the same type of research, and shared their results.Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Database: Photo 51
Franklin's X-ray images appeared to confirm Linus Pauling's theory that human DNA was structured in a triple-helix. This however, was because her initial DNA samples were from small traces of First Civilization DNA, which was embedded in human DNA. Franklin's discovery of triple-helix DNA was censored, and started the Templar company Abstergo Industries' research into the First Civilization.Assassin's Creed: Unity – Database: 05. Phoenix Project Report
Franklin eventually produced an X-ray diffraction image of a DNA molecule, called Photo 51. This image led to the discovery that human DNA was structured in a double-helix. On the instructions of a high-ranking Abstergo employee, Dr. Clinton B. Rosenburg of the Chemistry Life Foundation secretly passed Franklin's X-ray images on to the biologist James Watson without Franklin's permission.Assassin's Creed: Initiates – The Rosenburg Letters, II of VII
Watson and his research partner Francis Crick constructed their own DNA model in their laboratory, based on Franklin's work. Giving little credit to Franklin, Crick and Watson published their results, leading the public to believe the triple-helix theory to be erroneous. Without Franklin's research, Watson and his team would not have reached their conclusions as soon. Franklin would embark on other research projects, but was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1956. Less than two years later, Franklin died of ovarian cancer, making her ineligible for the . Wilkins, Watson, and Crick won said prize in 1962.
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed: Initiates 
*Assassin's Creed: Unity 
==References==
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