Ask any schoolchild “Who discovered the double helix molecule of DNA?” and their response will be Francis Crick and James Watson. After all, along with Maurice Wilkins, they all won a 1962 Nobel prize for that discovery. But is that answer totally accurate? Did sexism and prejudice account for overlooking another scientist? Who was Rosalind Franklin? Rosalind Franklin was born into a distinguished Jewish family in the Notting Hill neighborhood of London on July 25, 1920.
