July 25, 1920 –
English chemist Rosalind Franklin, the unsung hero of DNA research, was born on the date.
James Watson and Francis Crick got the Nobel Prize for discovering the double helix after Franklin’s lab partner showed Watson one of her best images — an X-ray labelled ‘photograph 51‘. Some believe she should have shared in their Nobel Prize.
The Haus of Dcaligari 