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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 February 2025. 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 Franklin with a microscope in 1955 Born Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-07-25) 25 July 1920 Notting Hill, London, England ...
Roland Franklin was born in 1926 into an affluent and influential British Jewish family. His father, Ellis Arthur Franklin (1894–1964), was a merchant banker. His sister was Rosalind Franklin, the scientist whose research led to discovery of the structure of DNA. [2] His brother was writer, bibliographer, and antiquarian Colin Ellis Franklin.
Brenda, Lady Maddox FRSL (née Murphy; February 24, 1932 – June 16, 2019) [1] was an American writer and biographer, who spent most of her adult life living and working in the UK, from 1959 until her death. [2]
Rosalind Franklin joined King's College London in January 1951 to work on the crystallography of DNA. By the end of that year, she established two important facts: one is that phosphate groups, which are the molecular backbone for the nucleotide chains, lie on the outside (it was a general consensus at the time that they were at the inside); and the other is that DNA exists in two forms, a ...
Gosling was the co-author with Franklin of one of the three DNA double helix papers published in Nature in April 1953. [9] Gosling was not recognized by the Nobel Committee and Franklin had died four years before. When Franklin left King's College, Gosling was reassigned back to work with Wilkins, with whom he formally completed his thesis work.
Anne Sayre first met Rosalind Franklin in 1949 at Laboratoire Central des Services Chimiques de l'État in Paris, where Franklin was working, and when she and her husband was visiting. [5] From then on she remained one of Franklin's closest friends. While she and her husband lived in Oxford, Franklin frequently met her whenever he visited England.
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His sister was the posthumously-renowned biophysicist Rosalind Franklin. The uncle of Franklin's father was The 1st Viscount Samuel , who was Home Secretary in 1916 and the first practising Jew to serve in a British Cabinet; he was also the first High Commissioner (the Governor of a territory that is not a Colony) for the British Mandate of ...