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        1. When was rosalind franklin born and died
        2. Where was rosalind franklin born
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        5. Rosalind franklin early life

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          Born25th July, 1920 (London, United Kingdom) - Died16th April, 1958 (London, United Kingdom)

          Rosalind Franklin was an x-ray crystallographer whose work helped uncover the double-helix structure of DNA.

          (Photo credit: Vittorio Luzzati)

          Family

          Rosalind Elsie Franklin was the eldest daughter and second of five children born into a wealthy and well-connected Anglo Jewish family.

          Her father's uncle was Herbert Samuel (later Viscount Samuel) appointed Home Secretary in 1916 and the first practising Jew to serve in the British cabinet, and her aunt, Helen Caroline Franklin was a trade unionist and suffragist married to Norman de Mattos Bentwich, Attorney General of the British Mandate of Palestine.

          Franklin's mother was Muriel Frances Waley, the daughter of an unsuccessful barrister, Arthur Waley. She greatly regreted not having had the schooling to go to university like her brother and was determined the same should not happen to her daughter