These women artists have created various pieces as a tribute to Rosalind Franklin, in recognition of her scientific work on DNA, which was not highly recognised in her time. The pieces also strive to create awareness of ovarian cancer of which Rosalind died and they themselves are survivors. They used the X-ray images created by Rosalind, as inspiration for their work.
Wiki: Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 Kensington, London – 16 April 1958 Chelsea, London) was an English biophysicist and crystallographer who made important contributions to the understanding of the fine structures of DNA, viruses, coal and graphite. Franklin is best known for her work on the X-ray diffraction images of DNA which formed the framework of Watson and Crick's hypothesis of the double helical structure of DNA in their 1953 publication,[1] and when published constituted critical evidence of the hypothesis.[2] Later she led pioneering work on the tobacco mosaic and polio viruses. She died in 1958 of bronchopneumonia, secondary carcinomatosis, and cancer of the ovary.
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