Rosalind Franklin facts for kids

Rosalind Elsie Franklin
Born	Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-07-25)25 July 1920 Notting Hill, London, England, UK
Died	16 April 1958(1958-04-16) (aged 37) Chelsea, London, England, UK
Nationality	English
Fields	Physical chemistry X-ray crystallography
Institutions	British Coal Utilisation Research Association Laboratoire Central des Services Chimiques de l'État Birkbeck, University of London King's College London
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (PhD)
Doctoral students	John Finch and Kenneth Holmes
Known for	Structure of DNA Fine structure of coal and graphite Virus structures

Rosalind Franklin (Notting Hill, London, 25 July 1920 – London, 16 April 1958) was a British biophysicist, known for her contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA. She also worked on coal, studies of RNA, and viruses. She was one of the first people to do X-ray crystallography on DNA. The work of Franklin and the graduate student Raymond Gosling were used by Watson and Crick in their effort to discover the structure of DNA.

Franklin died from ovarian cancer in 1958. Nobel Prizes are not awarded after a person's death, so she was not considered for the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. It was awarded to Francis Crick, James D. Watson and Maurice Wilkins.

Double Helix William Astbury Oswald Avery Lawrence Bragg Francis Crick Erwin Chargaff Jerry Donohue Rosalind Franklin Raymond Gosling Frederick Griffith Phoebus Levene Friedrich Miescher Fred Neufeld Sir John Randall Alex Stokes James Watson Maurice Wilkins Herbert Wilson

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  An electronmicrograph of tobacco mosaic virus

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  Mural inscription on King's College London's Franklin-Wilkins Building, co-named in honour of Rosalind Franklin's work

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  Blue plaque on 107 Drayton Gardens, London SW10

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  Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science at Illinois