Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated
Pioneering biophysicist Rosalind Franklin writes to her religious father

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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