Rosalind Franklin
- Credit: By MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology - From the personal collection of Jenifer Glynn
A sculpted portrait of pioneering scientist Rosalind Franklin is to be unveiled in Hampstead.
The biophysicist s X-ray Photo 51 helped Watson and Crick discover the double helix structure of DNA – but she didn t share their 1962 Nobel Prize because she died of ovarian cancer four years earlier.
To mark International Women s Month, the property firm redeveloping the former Westfield College site in Kidderpore Avenue into luxury apartments, will install a tondo sculpture of Franklin framed by DNA formations.
Franklin took the photograph in May 1952 while working as a research fellow at King s College London, before going on to work on the molecular structure of viruses at Birkbeck. When King s later took over the Westfield site, it named a student building after her.
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