Rosalind Franklin, 1920–58 Color:Black with Gold The third woman – and

The third woman – and first American woman – to win the Nobel Prize in science

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she is credited with inventing a groundbreaking technique that involved using human tissue culture rather than laboratory mice to test the effects of potential drugs on cancer cells

Wright is now one of the most famous black women in medicine

the first medical school in the South for African-Americans

Rosalind Franklin, 1920–58 Color:Black with Gold The third woman – andWhen the double helix structure of DNA was discovered, scientists claimed that they had unravelled the secret of life itself. The crucial piece of evidence was provided by the expert crystallographer Rosalind Franklin the famous photograph 51, an X ray picture showing a dark cross of dots, the signature image of a concealed molecular spiral. The life changing innovations that followed mapping the human genome, test tube babies, genetic engineering all