NorthWest Biotherapeutics Inc (NWBO)

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Rosalind Franklin was an amazing woman, and despite knowing full well Watson and Crick stole her work, she continued to correspond with them in the name of furthering science. She lost her life to cancer, almost certainly because of the X-rays she was exposed to in her work. She loved life (travel), hated english weather and still managed to change the world despite two self aggrandizing "scientists" that partially muted her contributions on the public formal stage.

Rosalind Franklin is best known for her informative X-ray diffraction patterns of DNA that provided vital clues for James Watson and Francis Crick's double-stranded helical model. Her scientific career did not end when she left the DNA work at King's College, however. In 1953 Franklin moved to J. D. Bernal's crystallography laboratory at Birkbeck College, where she shifted her focus to the three-dimensional structure of viruses, obtaining diffraction patterns of Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) of unprecedented detail and clarity. During the next five years, while making significant headway on the structural determination of TMV, Franklin maintained an active correspondence with both Watson and Crick, who were also studying aspects of virus structure. Developments in TMV research during the 1950s illustrate the connections in the emerging field of molecular biology between structural studies of nucleic acids and of proteins and viruses. They also reveal how the protagonists of the "race for the double helix" continued to interact personally and professionally during the years when Watson and Crick's model for the double-helical structure of DNA was debated and confirmed.