Rosalind Franklin - (28) ~ by SaralynArati

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YEAH! She was so cool! Awesome choice! ACCURACY: 9 points. INTRICACY: 6 points. DESCRIPTION: 10 points. TOTAL: 25 points! :D

8 years ago

SaralynArati

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After finishing her work on DNA, Franklin led pioneering work at Birkbeck on the molecular structures of viruses. Her team member Aaron Klug continued her research, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1982. Franklin's part in the discovery of the nature of DNA was shown in the 1987 TV Movie Life Story, starring Juliet Stevenson as Franklin. This movie portrayed Franklin as somewhat stern, but also alleged that Watson and Crick did use a lot of her work to do theirs.

8 years ago

SaralynArati

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Franklin is best known for her work on the X-ray diffraction images of DNA while at King's College, London, which led to the discovery of the DNA double helix for which James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962. Watson later suggested that Franklin would have ideally been awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with Wilkins, but unfortunately the Nobel Committee does not make posthumous nominations.

8 years ago

SaralynArati

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She became a research associate at King's College London in 1951 and worked on X-ray diffraction studies, which would eventually facilitate the double helix theory of the DNA. In 1953, after two years, due to disagreement with her director and more so with her colleague Maurice Wilkins, she was compelled to move to Birkbeck College. At Birkbeck, Franklin was offered a separate research team studying viruses. She died in 1958 at the age of 37 of ovarian cancer. In private life, she never married.

8 years ago

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Educated at various private schools as a child, Franklin then studied the Natural Sciences Tripos at Newnham College, Cambridge, from which she graduated in 1941, earning a research fellowship in physical chemistry. 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 Ph.D. in 1945. She went to Paris in 1947 as a post-doctoral researcher, where she became an accomplished X-ray crystallographer.

8 years ago