Rosalind

About Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind accepted a research fellowship at King's College London in the early 1950s. Originally employed to study the molecular structure of proteins and lipids in solution, she was reassigned by the director John Randall to work on DNA fibres because of her previous experience working on the structure on coal. It was not an easy time because of mis-understandings with her co-worker Maurice Wilkins and the overtly male scientific community of the day.

Her ground-breaking work on deciphering the molecular structure of DNA and its subsequent use by James Crick and Francis Crick is well documented. The complex chain of events at this time are themes for the opera Rosalind.