Rosalind Franklin was a British chemist, who discovered the structure of DNA. Rosalind was born in London England in 1920. Growing up, she was the second born of five children, and both her mother and father were involved with a lot of social events, and they had high standard in society. Her Father, Ellis Author Franklin, had wanted to become a scientist, but was not able to receive the education because World War I. rid him of that opportunity. Like her father, she was attracted to science, and knew at age 15, that she wanted to pursue a career in science. Her father warned her about the profession of science, because it wasn’t a subject that many women were a part of, but this did not keep her from learning about scientific things. ( The
