Rosalind The Discoverer

Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958)  “She made the invisible impossible to ignore.”

Shade: A graphite-violet shimmer with crystalline flashes and diffraction-like light.

History: Rosalind Franklin’s X-ray diffraction research produced Photograph 51 — the image that revealed DNA’s double helix structure. Though her work was used without her full knowledge or credit, her precision and scientific rigor became foundational to modern genetics and molecular biology.