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Rosalind Elsie Franklin

Franklin, Rosalind Elsie (1920–58), British chemist and biologist. Her contributions, including information leading to the construction of a deoxyribo-nucleic acid (DNA) model (1953), made use of X-ray diffraction technique.

See also: Biology; Deoxyribonucleic Acid.

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