Ellis and Muriel Franklin welcomed their second child, Rosalind Franklin, on July 25, 1920; in London, England. 

"Rosalind Franklin and her four siblings. Photo from Jenifer Glynn"

Rosalind Franklin excelled in college classes such as chemistry, mathematics, and physics at Newnham College in Cambridge. She majored in physical chemistry and natural sciences. This was where she was introduced to x-ray chrystallography, which was used to discover DNA.

Cambridge college passed a law in 1941 prohibiting women to recieve degrees. But six years later in 1947, the law was changed where she and other women can then recieve the degree they earned. 

"Rosalind Franklin's Lab At Birkbeck Colege. Photo recieved from Jenifer Glynn"

Rosalind Franklin joined a unit of biophysics at King's College where she worked as a research associate. During this time Raymond Gosling working as an undergraduate on the same x-ray crystallography experiment for DNA.

Rosalind Franklin photographs crystalized fibres of deoxyribonucleic acid which is also known as DNA.

On April 16, 1958, Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer while working on a project with tobacco mosaic virus and the structure of ribunicleic acid aslo known as RNA. The x-ray radiation she was exposed to attributed to her cancer. She was not awarded for her contribution of discovering DNA because of her early aged death.