Hi, I’m Rosalind Franklin. I was a Scientist living in London, in the United Kingdom. I was a fan of science, Chemistry, and Biology.

I was born the 25th of July, 1920 in Notting Hill, London. I died the 16th of April, 1958 in Chelsea, London.

I was born into an influential Jewish family, I studied at several schools, including North London Collegiate School.

I enrolled at Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1938 and studied chemistry. In 1941, I was awarded Second Class Honor. I went on to work as an assistant research officer at the British Coal Utilisation Research Association, where I studied the porosity of coal which was the basis for my 1945 Ph.D. thesis "The physical chemistry of solid organic colloids with special reference to coal."

In January 1951, I began working as a research associate at the King's College London in the biophysics unit, where director John Randall used her expertise and X-ray diffraction techniques (mostly of proteins and lipids in solution) on DNA fibers. Studying DNA structure with X-ray diffraction, Me and my student Raymond Gosling made an amazing discovery: We took pictures of DNA and discovered that there were two forms of it, a dry "A" form and a wet "B" form.

In March 1953 I left Kings college and relocated to Birkbeck College, where I studied the structure of the tobacco mosaic virus and the structure of RNA. Because Randall let me leave on the condition that I would not work on DNA, I turned my attention back to studies of coal. In five years, I had published 17 papers on viruses, and my group laid the foundations for structural virology.

In the fall of 1956, I discovered that I had ovarian cancer. I continued working throughout the following two years, despite having three operations and experimental chemotherapy. I experienced a 10-month remission and worked up until several weeks before my death on April 16, 1958, at the age of 37.

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https://www.famousscientists.org/rosalind-franklin/

https://www.biography.com/people/rosalind-franklin-9301344