(Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) A major new £100 million investment by the government into the development of an innovative multi-disciplinary science and technology research center was announced today by Business Secretary Greg Clark. The new Rosalind Franklin Institute — named in honor of the pioneering British scientist whose use of X-rays to study biological structures played a crucial role in the discovery of DNA's 'double helix' structure by Francis Crick and James Watson — will bring together UK strengths in the physical sciences, engineering and life sciences
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