Who am I: Number III

[BobL]

Went hunting, and found the book I had read. It dealt with the life of Rosalind Franklin, who produced the initial x-ray image. The allegation was, that her work was 'pinched', which lead to the discovery of dna. Very interesting reading, about an incredible woman.

Strictly speaking it was not an X-ray image, it was an X-ray diffraction pattern cause by the scattering of X-rays from the DNA structure. There's a fair bit of interpretation required to go from from a diffraction pattern to a structure but nevertheless a very important step in the discovery sequence.