​Rosalind Franklin

                                                 played a crucial role in the discovery of DNA's structure and made important contributions to the study of plant viruses and the understanding of the chemistry of coal, yet many people don't know her name. In this blog I'll tell the story of her life and her discoveries so everyone can

remember what she did.

Dr. Rosalind Franklin and Photo 51, 2012, by Robin Scott, based from Rosalind Franklin, June 11, 1946 by Elliott & Fry

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Plant Viruses and Rosalind Franklin's Legacy
"Franklin left King's college in 1953 to work on using her x-ray diffraction techniques to study plant viruses, particularly the tobacco mosaic..."
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DNA
"In 1951, Rosalind Franklin went back to London to work in J. T. Randall's biophysics program at King's College. It was very different from Paris..."
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Paris
"1945. WWII had ended, and Franklin, in June of that year, went back to Nenwham to write her Ph.D. thesis from her work at BCURA. ​Since..."
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First Work: Properties of Coal at BCURA Part II
"The director of research at BCURA was Dr. Donald Bangham, whom Franklin coauthored a journal article with ("Thermal Expansion of Coals..."
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First Work: Properties of Coal at BCURA Part I
"BCURA (the ​British Coal Utilisation Research Association) had been founded in 1938, only four years before Rosalind Franklin came there...."
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Transition from School to Work
"Rosalind Franklin got her Bachelor's degree in Physical Chemistry in 1941. She didn't leave Cambridge until 1942, though. She had...."
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Rosalind Franklin Outside of School
"Rosalind Franklin grew a lot during her time at school. She became very vocal and serious about politics, as her sister describes in her memoir...."
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Higher Education
"WWII started during Franklin's second year at Cambridge. Her father believed that she should be doing something more for the war effort...."
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Childhood
"...Rosalind Franklin showed her intelligence from a very young age. Her family had always intended for her to have an education, and didn't have any...."
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​An Introduction
"Rosalind Franklin is most well known for her uncredited contribution to the discovery of the structure of DNA. In fact, her crucial photograph of...."
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