Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920–16 April 1958) was an Englishchemist and X-ray crystallographer who made contributions to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite. Although her works on coal and viruses were appreciated in her lifetime, her contributions to the discovery of DNA were largely recognized posthumously.
Born to a prominent British Jewish family, Franklin was educated at a private day school at Norland Place in West London, Lindores School for Young Ladies in Sussex, and St Paul's Girls' School, London. Then she studied the Natural Sciences Tripos at Newnham College, Cambridge, from where she graduated in 1941. Earning a research fellowship, she joined the University of Cambridge physical chemistry laboratory under Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, who disappointed her for his lack of enthusiasm. Fortunately, the British Coal Utilisation Research Association (BCURA) offered her a research position in 1942, and started her work on coals. This helped her earn a PhD in 1945. She went to Paris in 1947 as a chercheur (post-doctoral researcher) under Jacques Mering at the Laboratoire Central des Services Chimiques de l'Etat, where she became an accomplished X-ray crystallographer. She became a research associate at King's College London, in 1951, but was compelled to move to Birkbeck College after two years, owing to disagreeable clashes with her director John Randall and more so with her colleague Maurice Wilkins. At Birkbeck, J. D. Bernal, chair of the physics department, offered her a separate research team. She died in 1958 at the age of 37 of ovarian cancer.
I can’t say that I liked school much. I went to three ...That’sShakespeare told ... Presumably that includes the likes of Marie Curie, who discovered radium and polonium, and Rosalind Franklin, who was key in the discovery of DNA ... .
I can’t say that I liked school much. I went to three ...That’sShakespeare told ... Presumably that includes the likes of Marie Curie, who discovered radium and polonium, and Rosalind Franklin, who was key in the discovery of DNA ... Join the conversation ... .
Here’s how it begins. ... Yet at no point did anyone suggest he should be expelled from the Royal Society... The three original signatories included Sunetra Gupta, the recipient of the Royal Society’s Rosalind FranklinAward. Not exactly collegial behaviour.
In 2028, the European Space Agency (ESA) plans to launch their Rosalind Franklin rover, previously known as the ExoMars rover ... In 2028, the European Space Agency plans to launch their Rosalind Franklin ...
Video. 00.04.30...Enjoy the flight! ... Crossing overAres Vallis again, the flight brings us to the smoother terrain of Oxia Planum and the planned landing site for ESA’s ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover ... Disclaimer ... See processing notes below ... .
The Rosalind study is named after Rosalind Franklin, the BritishX-ray crystallographer whose Photo 51 famously captured the double helix structure of DNA. The photo was taken in 1952, six years before Franklin died of ovarian cancer.
Stevenage, Hertfordshire... Nicknamed the UK’sSpace City, Airbus has worked on many exciting projects from its base here, including a wind sensing satellite and the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin, Europe’s first interplanetary rover vehicle ... £350,069 ... St ... .
Mmm, but she blinded me with science. She blinded me with science!. And failed me in biology, yeah ...Science can be so amazing ... It turned out later that they had “borrowed” research, without permission, from chemist Rosalind Franklin.
