Rosalind's Degree: A Streetcar Named Desire

In 1938, Rosalind entered Newnham College in Cambridge, England and she majored in chemistry. Here, she met Bill Price, a laboratory demonstrator; he later became one of her colleagues. In the year of 1941, Rosalind was awarded with the Second Class Honors; in her time, this was counted as a bachelor’s degree. Her bachelor’s degree helped her become qualified for employment. Rosalind then went to work as an assistant officer the British Coal Utilisation Research Association where she studied coal. In 1946, she went to Laboratoire Central des Services Chimiques de l'Etat in Paris; here, she met Jacques Mering, a crystallographer. He taught her about X-ray diffraction, which would help her along the way of her journey of discovering deoxyribonucleic
acid, otherwise known as DNA.
In 1951, Rosalind began working with her director, John Randall at King’s College in London. Here, John used Rosalind’s experience with X-rays on DNA fibers. Using the X-ray diffraction techniques she learned from Jacques Mering, Rosalind along with her student, Raymond Gosling, found something that would change the world of genetics forever: they had finally discovered the structure of DNA. Not only did Rosalind and Raymond find the structure of DNA, but they figured out that there was two types of DNA structures: a dry and a wet form.