Rosalind Franklin (Nicole Kidman) was a tenacious British chemist who more than held her own in the male-dominated scientific field of the 1950s. During her three-year fellowship at King's College London she played a crucial, and criminally overlooked, role in the discovery of DNA's Double Helix. 'Photograph 51' delves into the ambition and all-consuming hunger for discovery which led to this scientific breakthrough, and the reasons why Franklin was for so long nothing more than a historical footnote.
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