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Rosalind Franklin was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose meticulous work produced Photo 51, the famous X-ray diffraction image of DNA that provided critical evidence for the double helix structure described by Watson and Crick — though her essential contribution was not credited in their Nobel Prize-winning paper. Working in a male-dominated field that frequently underestimated her, she made significant contributions not only to DNA research but also to the structure of viruses and coal, demonstrating a range and precision that made her one of the most gifted experimental scientists of her era. Her story — reclaimed by historians of science in recent decades — has become emblematic of the systemic barriers women in science faced and the urgent need to properly attribute scientific discovery.

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