Which London gallery added Franklin's portrait in 1998?

Which London gallery added Franklin's portrait in 1998? The answer is the National Portrait Gallery.

The London gallery added Rosalind Franklin’s portrait beside portraits of Francis Crick, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins. The arrangement connected the four scientists with the discovery of DNA’s double-helix structure, while also acknowledging Franklin’s frequently overlooked contribution.

Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer. Her X-ray diffraction work at King’s College London produced Photo 51, an especially revealing image of DNA. She later worked at Birkbeck College on viruses, including tobacco mosaic virus, before her death from cancer in 1958, aged 37.

A common mix-up is confusing the National Portrait Gallery with the National Gallery, which is a separate London institution focused mainly on paintings. The National Portrait Gallery specializes in portraits of historically significant people, and its Franklin display reflects both her scientific importance and the later reassessment of her role in DNA research.