On what would’ve been her 93rd birthday, mega search engine Google honored biophysicist Rosalind Franklin on July 25th.  Born in England in 1920, Franklin is often not necessarily un-credited but not as highly publicized as Francis Crick and James Watson for the discovery of the double helical structure of DNA.  Her contributions of X-Ray diffracted images which were the last and very valuable lead-in to what is known today as the double helix and how we receive the genes of our parents.

Watch Google’s charming illustration below of Franklin’s achievement.

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