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When and where was Franklin born?

1920, London

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What was Franklin's full name?

Rosalind Elsie Franklin

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How and when did Franklin die?

Cancer

1958

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What did she study in university?

Chemistry

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What was the hottest topic in science in 1951?

The structure of DNA

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Which scientists won a Nobel Prize for the DNA discoveries?

Watson, Crick and Wilkins

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How long did it take to get Photo 51? And how long to analyse it?

100 hours

A year

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What is the structure of DNA like?

Made of two helicoidal strands, one opposite the other with bases in the centre like rungs of a ladder

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What did the research of coal lead to?

Better gas masks for the British in the World War

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Which university did Franklin attend?

Cambridge

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What is Photo 51?

The most famous x-ray image of DNA

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How did she help her colleague win a Nobel Prize in 1982?

With her work on the structure of viruses

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Which sectors did her work revolutionise?

Medicine, biology, agriculture 

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What was one of the most important scientific achievements in the last century?

The discovery of the structure of DNA

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How did Watson describe Franklin?

A plain-dressing, belligerent scientist

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Which college did she join in 1951?

King's College

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What did Franklin do once she upgraded the x-ray lab?

Got to work shining high-energy x-rays on tiny, wet crystals of DNA

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How is the academic culture described as being for women back then?

Not friendly

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Why did Franklin clash with Wilkins?

He assumed she was his assistant 

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What happened to Photo 51?

It was taken without Franklin's permission