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Thu 03 Mar 2003The dark lady of DNA
Few know of the contribution made by Rosalind Franklin to the discovery of DNA's double helix, writes Brenda Maddox
The secret of life, four billion years old, was unpicked in a drama that moved day by day, almost hour by hour, in early 1953. One of the co-discoverers of the secret was Rosalind Franklin, a 32-year-old physical chemist at King's College London.
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