Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958)

In 1962, three men received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their work on DNA; their colleague British chemist and biophysicist Rosalind’s previous work had been crucial to this and to the overall discovery of the DNA double helix, but she died four years before it could be fully proven.

As a cautious and private person, it isn’t surprising that she was only posthumously recognised for her contributions to science, but we think she deserves to be lauded.