Rosalind Franklin Biography
Rosalind Elsie Franklin, born July 25, 1920, was the second of five children of the wealthy family of Ellis Franklin and Muriel Waley. She attended numerous private schools and excelled in math and science. Rosalind died in 1958 at the age of 38 due ovarian cancer; this was likely caused by her extensive work with X-rays. Rosalind Franklin’s work in the field of science revolutionized the way we look at DNA as well as setting a path for female scientists around the world today. Rosalind was born into an affluent Jewish family on July, 25, 1920 in Notting Hill, London, England. Both of her parents were highly active in charities and other community services. Aside from being active members of charity, her father worked as an investment banker
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Among the audience listening that day was James Watson, who was particularly interested in finding out the structure of DNA. Soon after the conference Watson, who remembered just barely enough information, shared Rosalind’s findings with Francis Crick. With the information that he recalled they were able to create a scale 3D model of DNA; Watson hadn’t taken any notes during Rosalind’s presentation, so naturally some of the things he remembered were inaccurate which also led to the model being inaccurate. After Watson and Crick’s request to collaborate with Rosalind was denied they were also told to cease all work on DNA (Biography, 2016). On May 2, 1952 Raymond Gosling took photo 51, an X-Ray diffraction photo that would quickly become well known. This only added to the proof that DNA’s structure was that of a helix, Rosalind didn’t let it go that easy though, photo’s of ‘A’ DNA were less clear and she wanted to find out why (Biography, 2016). One month after photo 51 was taken, Rosalind announced that she would be leaving King’s to go to Birkbeck College for X-Ray work. In January of 1953, just before Rosalind’s departure, Wilkins showed photo 51 to Watson which only increased his desire to go back to model building because the structure was clearly obvious now. By March seventh of the same year, Watson and Crick had figured out the DNA code. While Rosalind’s research was essential to the discovery of DNA’s structure, there were still some pieces that she was still missing; here note books, however, do show that she was getting very
Among the audience listening that day was James Watson, who was particularly interested in finding out the structure of DNA. Soon after the conference Watson, who remembered just barely enough information, shared Rosalind’s findings with Francis Crick. With the information that he recalled they were able to create a scale 3D model of DNA; Watson hadn’t taken any notes during Rosalind’s presentation, so naturally some of the things he remembered were inaccurate which also led to the model being inaccurate. After Watson and Crick’s request to collaborate with Rosalind was denied they were also told to cease all work on DNA (Biography, 2016). On May 2, 1952 Raymond Gosling took photo 51, an X-Ray diffraction photo that would quickly become well known. This only added to the proof that DNA’s structure was that of a helix, Rosalind didn’t let it go that easy though, photo’s of ‘A’ DNA were less clear and she wanted to find out why (Biography, 2016). One month after photo 51 was taken, Rosalind announced that she would be leaving King’s to go to Birkbeck College for X-Ray work. In January of 1953, just before Rosalind’s departure, Wilkins showed photo 51 to Watson which only increased his desire to go back to model building because the structure was clearly obvious now. By March seventh of the same year, Watson and Crick had figured out the DNA code. While Rosalind’s research was essential to the discovery of DNA’s structure, there were still some pieces that she was still missing; here note books, however, do show that she was getting very