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.