BIOMOLECULES AND ENZYMES

Detailed explanation-1: -On 6 May 1952, at King´s College London in London, England, Rosalind Franklin photographed her fifty-first X-ray diffraction pattern of deoxyribosenucleic acid, or DNA.

Detailed explanation-2: -Under-appreciated during her lifetime, physical chemist Rosalind E. Franklin’s mysterious and ground-breaking photograph helped transform the science of genetics.

Detailed explanation-3: -At King’s College in London, Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins were studying DNA. Wilkins and Franklin used X-ray diffraction as their main tool–beaming X-rays through the molecule yielded a shadow picture of the molecule’s structure, by how the X-rays bounced off its component parts.

Detailed explanation-4: -Photograph 51 tells the dramatic tale of the race to the double helix in the years between 1951 and 1953, when Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins were using X-ray diffraction to take images of DNA.

Detailed explanation-5: -Wilkins shared Photograph 51 with the two scientists without Franklin’s knowledge or permission. While this photo was integral to Watson and Crick’s published theory on DNA’s double-helical structure, Franklin was not acknowledged in the published paper.