Rosalind Franklin

Personal Profile

• Date of Birth:

  25th July, 1920

• Place of Birth:

  Notting Hill, London, United Kingdom

• Place of Death:

• Date of Death:

  16th April, 1958

• Cause of Death:

  Cancer of the Ovary

• Sex:

  Female

• Nationality:

  British

• Religion:

  British-Jewish

• Education:

  St Paul's Girls' School
  Newnham College, Cambridge
  British Coal Utilisation Research Association
  Laboratoire central des services chimiques de l'État
  King's College London
  Birkbeck College, London

Family

• Father:

  Ellis Arthur Franklin

• Mother:

  Muriel Frances Waley

• Uncle:

  Muriel Frances Waley

• Aunt:

  Helen Carolin Franklin

Career

• Profession:

  English Biophysicist And X-Ray Crystallographer

• Claim to Fame:

  Fine structure of coal and graphite, DNA structure, viruses

• Debut:

  Worked at the British Coal Utilization Research Association in Kingston-upon-Thames from August 1942, studying the porosity of coal