1920–1958 English physical chemist and X-ray crystallographer who played a key role in the discovery of the three-dimensional structure of DNA.
Keywords: DNA; MRC; double helix; X-ray crystallography
Franklin, Rosalind Elsie
Aaron Klug, Medical Research Council, Cambridge, UK
Published online: October 2002
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003559
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Figure 1. X-ray diffraction patterns of the A and B forms of the sodium salt of DNA, reproduced from Franklin RE and Gosling RG (1953) The structure of sodium thymonucleate fibres: I. The influence of water content. Acta Crystallographica 6: 673–679.
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| Further Reading | |
| book Franklin's working notebooks. [Now in the Archives of Churchill College, Cambridge] | |
| book Watson JD (1968) The Double Helix. New York: Atheneum. | |
| Klug A (1968) Rosalind Franklin and the discovery of the structure of DNA. Nature 219: 808–813. | |
| Klug A (1974) Rosalind Franklin and the double helix. Nature 248: 787–788. | |
| book Sayre A (1978) Rosalind Franklin and DNA. New York: Norton. | |
| book Judson HF (2000) The Eighth Day of Creation: The Makers of the Biological Revolution, revised edition. New York: Simon & Schuster. | |
| book Glynn J (1996) "Rosalind Franklin". In: Shils E and Blacker C (eds) Cambridge Women. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | |
