Question

What are the struggle Rosalind Franklin went though in her life in 3 paragraph

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Answer: Rosalind Franklin was an outstanding researcher witnessed by the scientific society who shaped the field of molecular biology by presenting this scientific world the basis of “structure of DNA”. Born to a British Jewish family, Franklin was a curious and brilliant student with the great appetite for science.
Franklin entered Newnham College, Cambridge University in 1938 where she majored in physical chemistry. Since most of the instructors were pulled into the war, science in the academic pursuit kept struggling to survive. Despite all of the odds brought due to world war at that time, she received her honors degree in 1941 and started working at Norrish's lab. Things didn’t work out in favor of Franklin due to Norrish’s lack of enthusiasm for science and his inattentiveness towards Franklin's work, which compelled Franklin to leave that job. Even after the bitter experience with Norrish, she decided to pursue Ph.D. oriented research job. She began working at the British Coal Utilisation Research Association (BCURA), which yielded her a doctoral degree from the University of Cambridge and five eminent research papers.
Later Franklin landed up at Jacques Mering's lab at Laboratoire Central des Services Chimique de l'Etat, Paris where she got her expertise in X-Ray diffraction analysis. She became fond of the professional and collegial culture of Laboratoire Central. On the suggestion of a friend Charles Coulson, to study X-ray diffraction of large biomolecules she landed up at John Randall’s lab at Kings College, London. A miscommunication lead by Randall created a drift between Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, assistant lab chief at Randall’s lab. Randall had Franklin to work with graduate student Raymond Gosling towards DNA structure which didn’t go very well with Wilkins. Franklin was already not very comfortable with the less collegial culture of her current workplace to which the differences with Wilkins made things more difficult for her. Their personal conflict has risen to the extent that Randall had to interfere and divide DNA structure work between Franklin and Wilkins. Personality conflict with Wilkins turned out to be a major setback for Franklin. Watson and Crick who were running in the race for DNA structure got a big favor from this situation. Wilkins imprudent action to show Watson and Crick, X-ray diffraction photos and data of DNA gave them crucial insight into the structure of the DNA which brought them the glory of being the discoverer of the structure of the basis of life; DNA.
In 1953 Franklin moved to Birbeck college, where she started working on the structure of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) where she successfully decoded the structure of this virus with help of X-ray diffraction analysis which got her widespread fame in the world of structural virology. In 1956, Franklin was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. In the course of her treatment, she underwent numerous surgeries and experimental chemotherapy. It did not stop her from working in her lab. She was successful in getting the NIH grant, the largest grant fund seen by Birkbeck. She took her last breath on April 16, 1958.