Growing up in the interwar period in London, Rosalind Franklin was determined to become a scientist, defying her father's wishes. After World War II, Franklin worked at the French government's central chemical research laboratory, where she learned X-ray crystallography. Her training led to opportunities to photograph DNA, which allowed researchers, such as scientists James Watson and Francis Crick, to study in depth this complex molecule and to come to conclusions about its structure. Though Franklin proposed several conclusions similar to Watson and Crick's, Franklin was not sufficiently credited for her photographic work that led to their discovery. In 1958, her life was cut short at age 37 by ovarian cancer. Watson and Crick later won a Nobel Prize for their DNA research, but credit escaped Franklin's eye for capturing complex atoms on film.