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FRANKLIN, Rosalind Elsie (1920 – 1958)

FRANKLIN, Rosalind Elsie (1920 – 1958)

1920 – 1958

3 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1953 CE

#13946

Evidence for 2-chain helix in crystalline structure of sodium deoxyribonucleate.

Franklin and Gosling's completed Patterson synthesis of the A-form of DNA, based on work begun in 1952, represents the first independent confirmation that the Watson-Crick double-helix model was correct. "We suggest t…

1953 CE

#6847

Molecular configuration in sodium thymonucleate.

This paper reports Franklin's discovery of the existence of DNA in 2 forms, and conditions for readily and rapidly changing from one to the other. Its phosphates were on the outside.” (Maddox 195) The Watson-Cri…

1955 CE

#14001

Structure of tobacco mosaic virus.

The first discovery of the geometry of a protein structure. Franklin, whose X-ray photographs of DNA were crucial to Watson and Crick's discovery of the molecule's double helix structure in 1953, began researching the…