Rosalind Franklin facts for kids

Rosalind Elsie Franklin
Rosalind Elsie Franklin
Born	Rosalind Elsie Franklin ; 25 July 1920; Notting Hill, London, England, UK
Died	16 April 1958 (aged 37); Chelsea, London, England, UK
Resting place	Willesden United Synagogue Cemetery; 51°32′41″N 0°14′24″W / 51.5447°N 0.2399°W
Nationality	English
Education	St Paul's Girls' School
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (PhD)
Known for	Structure of DNA; Fine structure of coal and graphite; Virus structures;
	Scientific career
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;
Thesis	The physical chemistry of solid organic colloids with special reference to coal (1945)
Doctoral students	John Finch and Kenneth Holmes

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.

Images for kids

An electronmicrograph of tobacco mosaic virus
Mural inscription on King's College London's Franklin-Wilkins Building, co-named in honour of Rosalind Franklin's work
Blue plaque on 107 Drayton Gardens, London SW10
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science at Illinois