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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was an American printer, writer, scientist, inventor, and diplomat, often regarded as a Founding Father of the United States. He rose to prominence as editor of The Pennsylvania Gazette and author of Poor Richard's...

The structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was discovered in 1953 by two molecular biologists, James Dewey Watson (1928-2025) and Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916-2004). Watson and Crick were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...

The Franklin-Nashville Campaign (September-December 1864) was the last major military operation in the western theater of the American Civil War (1861-1865). After the Southern stronghold of Atlanta fell to Union forces, Confederate General...

The Battle of Franklin (30 November 1864) was a major battle in the western theater of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In his push to liberate Nashville from Northern occupation, Confederate Lieutenant General John Bell Hood invaded Tennessee...

A 1944 portrait photograph by Leon Perskie of the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum)

Franklin's Return to Philadelphia, 1785, after serving as commissioner to France during the American Revolution, oil on canvas by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, c. late 19th century. Private collection.

A c. 1767 oil-on-canvas portrait by David Martin of Benjamin Franklin (1706-90). This portrait depicts Franklin as a scholarly figure of the Enlightenment with a bust of Isaac Newton gazing at him. The portrait was commissioned by Robert...

Portrait of Rosalind Franklin, photograph by Elliott & Fry, 11 June 1946. The work of English chemist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic...

Rosalind Franklin at work in a London laboratory, photograph by Henry Grant, 1954. The work of English chemist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic...

Deborah Read Franklin (1708-1714), wife of Benjamin Franklin, oil on canvas portrait attributed to Benjamin Wilson, c. 1758. American Philosophical Society Library & Museum in Philadelphia, PA.