A black and white photo shows Franklin looking down through a microscope in a lab indoors in 1955.Image source, Photo12 / Universal Images Group via Getty Images
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Franklin was a British chemist and crystallographer, whose X-ray diffraction work helped discover the structure of DNA

ByHazel ShearingEducation correspondent
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Rosalind Franklin is the only female scientist named in GCSE and National 5 science exam specifications in the UK, according to new research.

A Cambridge study found that of the 86 scientists named by UK exam boards, the English chemist, whose work in the 1950s helped reveal the structure of DNA, was the only woman.