Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated

Pioneering biophysicist Rosalind Franklin writes to her religious father

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…