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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 September 2024. British X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958) This article is about the chemist. For the Mars rover named after her, see Rosalind Franklin (rover). Rosalind Franklin Born Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-07-25) 25 July 1920 Notting Hill, London, England Died 16 April 1958 (1958-04-16 ...
Rosalind Franklin and DNA is a biography of an English chemist Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958) written by her American friend Anne Sayre in 1975. Franklin was a physical chemist who made pivotal research in the discovery of the structure of DNA, known as "the most important discovery" in biology. [1][2] DNA itself had become "life's most famous ...
t. e. Photo 51 is an X-ray based fiber diffraction image of a paracrystalline gel composed of DNA fiber [1] taken by Raymond Gosling, [2][3] a postgraduate student working under the supervision of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin at King's College London, while working in Sir John Randall 's group. [4][5][6][7][8] The image was tagged ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 26 September 2024. American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist (born 1928) For other people named James Watson, see James Watson (disambiguation). James Watson Watson in 2012 Born James Dewey Watson (1928-04-06) April 6, 1928 (age 96) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Alma mater University of Chicago ...
The history of molecular biology begins in the 1930s with the convergence of various, previously distinct biological and physical disciplines: biochemistry, genetics, microbiology, virology and physics. With the hope of understanding life at its most fundamental level, numerous physicists and chemists also took an interest in what would become ...
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins CBE FRS (15 December 1916 – 5 October 2004) [ 3 ] was a New Zealand -born British biophysicist and Nobel laureate whose research spanned multiple areas of physics and biophysics, contributing to the scientific understanding of phosphorescence, isotope separation, optical microscopy and X-ray diffraction.
Stephen William Hawking, CH , CBE , FRS , FRSA (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. [ 6 ][ 17 ][ 18 ] Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge ...
Charles Robert Darwin FRS FRGS FLS FZS JP [5] (/ ˈdɑːrwɪn / [6] DAR-win; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, [7] widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a common ancestor is now generally accepted and ...