“A Note on Molecular Configuration of Sodium Thymonucleate.”
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Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Elsie Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer. Her work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite. Although her works on coal and viruses were appreciated in her lifetime, Franklin's contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA were largely unrecognised during her life, for which Franklin has been var…
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science · British X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958) · chemist · molecular biologist · physicist · biochemist · biophysicist · crystallographer · university teacher · geneticist · also Rosalind Franklin, R E Franklin, Rosalind E. Franklin, Franklin
Born 25 July 1920 · Died 16 April 1958 · Q7474
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2026· 3 entries
The Times of Israel: Rosalind Franklin: The DNA of Scientific Revolution — By Sandra Chayo
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The Guardian: ‘Grand and intimate’: Miles Franklin shortlisted novels grapple with profound questions of our time
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2025· 2 entries
Chicago Tribune: Rosalind Franklin president reflects on tenure upon retirement: ‘I … accomplished important goals’
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Tom Hooper started making a full movie Photograph 51 based on the play of the same title by Ziegler, who is also the script writer for the film
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2023· 5 entries
Smithsonian Magazine: New Musical Spotlights Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Discoveries
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Phys.org: What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of the structure of DNA
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NPR: Correction: Rosalind Franklin's crucial contribution to the discovery of DNA's structure
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An unpublished article for Time magazine in 1953 revealed two documents that showed a close collaboration of Franklin with Watson and Crick
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The plaque was replaced with one that included Franklin and Wilkins
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2021· 1 entry
Chicago Tribune: Rosalind Franklin University gets $2M grant to expand medical research and create lab space
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2020· 2 entries
Yahoo: Sexism pushed Rosalind Franklin toward the scientific sidelines during her short life, but her work still shines on her 100th birthday
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Published “Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 8,053 times.
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2019· 1 entry
The Verge: Europe’s Mars rover will be named after chemist Rosalind Franklin
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2017· 1 entry
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016” in The Lancet — cited 6,184 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015” in The Lancet — cited 5,710 times.
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2012· 3 entries
Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,801 times.
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Published “Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 6,635 times.
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Published “Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 10,807 times.
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2011· 2 entries
Has been produced at several places in the US and in late 2015 was put on at the Noel Coward Theatre, London, with Nicole Kidman playing Franklin
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Published “Quantity and Quality of Exercise for Developing and Maintaining Cardiorespiratory, Musculoskeletal, and Neuromotor Fitness in Apparently Healthy Adults” in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise — cited 7,593 times.
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2008).
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2005· 1 entry
Published “Diagnosis and Management of the Metabolic Syndrome” in Circulation — cited 9,449 times.
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2003· 2 entries
"The Rosalind Franklin Papers"
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On The Eagle, Cambridge, commemorating the discovery of DNA but omitting mention of Franklin
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1982· 1 entry
Iota Sigma Pi designated Franklin a National Honorary Member
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1974· 1 entry
An evaluation of the draft's close correlation with the third of the original trio of 25 April 1953 Nature DNA articles
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1968· 1 entry
Defending Franklin's significant contribution to DNA structure
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1962· 2 entries
The Nobel Prize was subsequently awarded to Crick, Watson, and Wilkins
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And the old Torrington Square laboratories were demolished four years later in May 1966
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1960· 2 entries
1961, and 1962 for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and in 1962 for Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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That "it might well be premature to make an award of a Prize to Watson and Crick, because of existing uncertainty about the detailed structure of nucleic acid
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1958· 5 entries
Died 1958-04-16.
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“Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.”
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And during her lifetime, the DNA structure was not considered to be fully proven
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Who experimentally showed the DNA replication of a bacterium, Escherichia coli
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“What’s the use of doing all this work if we don't get some fun out of this?”
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1956· 3 entries
Visited him at his home in Colorado after her tour to University of California, Berkeley, and Franklin was known to remark later that Caspar was one "she might have loved, might have married"
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In 1956, she visited him at his home in Colorado after her tour to University of California, Berkeley, and Franklin was known to remark later that Caspar was one "she might have loved, might have married".
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Franklin visited the University of California, Berkeley, where colleagues suggested her group research the polio virus
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1955· 2 entries
The team was joined by an American post-doctoral student Donald Caspar
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Franklin published her first major works on TMV in Nature, where she described that all TMV virus particles were of the same length
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1951· 3 entries
Which she and Gosling had significantly refined in 1952, as well as with published data and other very similar data to those available at King's
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But Franklin was opposed to prematurely building theoretical models, until sufficient data were obtained to properly guide the model building
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As a research associate, Franklin discovered some key properties of DNA, which eventually facilitated the correct description of the double helix structure of DNA
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1950· 2 entries
Swiss chemist Rudolf Signer in Berne prepared a highly purified DNA sample from calf thymus
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Franklin was granted a three-year Turner & Newall Fellowship to work at King's College London
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1947· 1 entry
As a chercheur (postdoctoral researcher) under Jacques Mering at the Laboratoire Central des Services Chimiques de l'État, she became an accomplished X-ray crystallographer
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1945· 2 entries
Franklin asked Adrienne Weill for help and to let her know of job openings for "a physical chemist who knows very little physical chemistry, but quite a lot about the holes in coal
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Studied at University of Cambridge, Doctor of Philosophy (1945).
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1941· 3 entries
Franklin was awarded second-class honours from her final exams
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With a degree in natural sciences from Newnham College, Cambridge, and then enrolled for a PhD in physical chemistry under Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, the 1920 Chair of Physical Chemistry at the University of Cambrid
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Studied at Newnham College, Bachelor of Arts (1938–1941).
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1940· 1 entry
Her mother recalled that she refused to believe in the existence of God, and remarked, "Well, anyhow, how do you know He isn't She?" Franklin later made her position clear, now based on her scientific experience, and wrote to her father in 1940:
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1939· 1 entry
As World War II was declared on their way home
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1938· 5 entries
Gave Franklin a lasting love for France and its language
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And studied chemistry within the Natural Sciences Tripos
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A trip to France in 1938 gave Franklin a lasting love for France and its language.
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Studied at St Paul's Girls' School (1931–1938).
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Winning a scholarship for university, the School Leaving Exhibition of £30 a year for three years, and £5 from her grandfather
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1920· 1 entry
Born 1920-07-25.
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1916· 1 entry
And the first practising Jew to serve in the British Cabinet
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