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Rosalind Elsie Franklin
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Rosalind Elsie Franklin
25 July 1920 Notting Hill, London, England, UK
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| Died | 16 April 1958 (aged 37) Chelsea, London, England, UK
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| 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) |
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| 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.
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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