Benjamin Franklin Biography

The biography is split into three different parts. The first part narrates the story of Franklin's childhood, education, and the successful career at King's College, London. She was known in the family for being very clever and outspoken. Her parents sent her to St. Paul’s Girls’ School, a private school known for rigorous academics, including physics and chemistry. She displayed exceptional intelligence from early childhood, knowing from the age of 15 that she wanted to be a scientist. Her father did not like the idea of her becoming a scientist because it was not considered to be appropriate. She showed an inclination for three-dimensional thinking which is the ability to think outside the box and for understanding crystalline structures. …show more content…
It also explains the molecular biology of her day and the painstaking physical and intellectual intricacies of making and interpreting x-rays of crystalline molecules. The third section mentions us that Franklin had a very productive life and short career after leaving DNA to others. Many, unlike Wilkins, liked working with her. The relationship between Wilkins and Franklin wasn’t easy. They never got along. He used to think that Franklin was there to do x-ray crystallography as his assistant. However, Franklin used to think that Wilkins was incapable of accepting a woman as an intellectual peer. Rosalind Franklin’s years at King’s college were indeed miserable, and gender was certainly one of the main reasons because her colleagues refuse to take her