And I am told by my wife that she literally gave her life to her research.
All of that X-ray crystallography induced a fatal case of leukemia.  She
also remembers that some school in California has a celebration on her
birthday.

Mark Wonsil
4M Enterprises, Inc.

Bruce Toback wrote:

>Together with Rosalind Franklin, who worked with Watson and Crick to
>provide the chemistry expertise and develop the techniques for the
>devilishly-difficult task of crystallizing huge DNA molecules with the
>degree of perfection required for X-ray diffraction studies. Today, she
>would have shared credit for the work, but like many women working in the
>sciences prior to the 1970s, her work was ignored or downplayed when
>scientific discoveries were publicized.