Tag Archive: biographies

Mar 21

James Dewey Watson (1928)

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dewey_Watson#Biograf.C3.ADa

Mar 12

Henrietta´s case

Here we have the Henrietta´s case. She helped everyone after her death. She died in 1951 because she had a cancer of the uterus.After her death , the doctor , George Otto Gey, took samples of her cells (HeLa) with this disease. With them , studied their reproduction to avoid a lot of deaths and to …

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Mar 10

Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) was a British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer  who made critical contributions to the understanding of the fine molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal and graphite. The DNA work achieved the most fame because DNA plays essential roles in cell metabolism and genetics, and the discovery of its structure helped …

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