Photo 51 Samoyeds

Rosalind Franklin was a brilliant scientist of the 1950's at King's College in London who's work contributed to the discovery of DNA's double helix. She created x-ray diffraction images referred to by one of her peers as "amongst the most beautiful x-ray photographs of any substance ever taken". Unknown to her, an image of DNA she created was seen by Watson and Crick (the two men more commonly cre

dited with the discovery of the double helix) and used to form their hypotheses regarding the helitical shape of DNA. They published their findings without properly crediting her, and much like other female scientist of that time, she was never given fair credit for her work. Franklin:
Photo number 51. My great admiration for brilliant female scientists such as Ms. Franklin coupled with the importance I place on genetics makes Photo 51 an obvious choice.