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 ...

Franklin's assumption was that it was her own project. The laboratory's second-in-command, Maurice Wilkins, was on vacation at the time, and when he returned, their relationship was muddled.

In fact, if things had worked out slightly differently, the famous pair of Watson and Crick could have been the famous pair of Wilkins and Franklin. His education. Maurice Wilkins was born in ...

Today’s scientists must acquire funding, perform the necessary experiments, and publish their work ... the structure of DNA before their competitors, Maurice Wilkins(Alan Howard) and Rosalind Franklin ...

(She died at 37 of ovarian cancer, likely due to the radiation exposure from her experiments). Her academic career ... to minimize her role that he continued as late as 2008. Franklin and Wilkins did ...

A crucial contribution. Rosalind Franklin made a crucial contribution to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, but some would say she got a raw deal. Biographer Brenda Maddox called ...