what did rosalind franklin contribute to the effort to identify the structure of dna
Rosalind Franklin. A crucial contribution. Rosalind Franklin made a crucial contribution to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, but some would say she got a raw deal. Biographer Brenda Maddox called her the Dark Lady of DNA, based on a once disparaging reference to Franklin by one of her coworkers.ndeed, Franklin is in the shadows of science history, for while her work on DNA was crucial to the discovery of its structure, her contribution to that landmark discovery is little known. Her education.