An Opera Explores the Story of Rosalind Franklin and the Discovery of DNA
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Composer Peter Hugh White and librettist Clare Heath have created an opera about chemist Rosalind Franklin, whose crucial X-ray crystallography work led to DNA's double helix discovery but went unrecognized when Watson and Crick won the Nobel Prize. The opera premieres at King's College London in 2026, celebrating Franklin's scientific brilliance while exploring the betrayal surrounding her famous "Photograph 51."
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