Franklin, Rosalind (Elsie)
- Franklin, Rosalind (Elsie)
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died April 16, 1958, London
British biologist.
After graduating from the University of Cambridge, she conducted important experimental work for the coal and coke industries. She later produced the X-ray diffraction pictures that allowed James D. Watson and
Francis Crick to deduce that the three-dimensional form of DNA was a double helix. In studies of the tobacco mosaic virus, she helped show that its RNA is located in its protein rather than in its central cavity and that this RNA is a single-stranded helix rather than the double helix found in the DNA of bacterial viruses and higher organisms. Her death from cancer at age 37 probably cost her a share of the 1962 Nobel Prize awarded to Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins.
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FRANKLIN, ROSALIND ELSIE — (1920–1958), British biophysicist. Franklin was born in London, England, into an upper middle class Jewish family whose ancestors had come to England from Breslau in 1763. Her uncle, sir herbert samuel , was the first British High Commissioner to … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Franklin, Rosalind (Elsie) — (25 jul. 1920, Londres, Inglaterra–16 abr. 1958, Londres). Bióloga británica. Después de graduarse en la Universidad de Cambridge, realizó trabajos experimentales relevantes para la industria del carbón y del coque. Posteriormente produjo las… … Enciclopedia Universal
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Rosalind Franklin — Rosalind Elsie Franklin Rosalind Elsie Franklin (* 25. Juli 1920 in London; † 16. April 1958 ebenda) war eine Biochemikerin und Spezialistin für die Röntgenstrukturanalyse von kristallisierten Makromolekülen. Als Wissenschaftlerin leistete sie… … Deutsch Wikipedia
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