If ever there was a case of someone who didn't get the recognition she deserved, it's Rosalind Franklin.
The British-born chemist did pioneering work that led to the discovery of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, the set of genetic instructions that tell cells how to carry out all of their normal activities.
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