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Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated

Pioneering biophysicist Rosalind Franklin writes to her religious father

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Shaun Usher
Apr 16, 2023
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Rosalind Elsie Franklin, 1955. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Rosalind Franklin died of cancer on this day in 1958, at the young age of 37. A British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer, she significantly contributed to our understanding of DNA, RNA, and virus molecular structures. Most famously—though n…

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