Rosalind Franklin was
A)the maiden name of the wife of a president.
B)the producer of the x-ray diffraction photographs that led to the DNA structure.
C)the person who discovered that salt forms a crystal.
D)the discoverer of x-rays.

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Rosalind Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was critical to the understanding of the structure of DNA. She produced X-ray diffraction photographs that showed the helical structure of DNA, which ultimately led to the discovery of its double-helix shape.

Rosalind Franklin Was