Rosalind Franklin

Jacob Reed Ms. Taylor Green Chemistry I December 9, 2016 The Life of Rosalind Franklin Rosalind Elsie Franklin was born on July 25th, 1920 into an class family in London, England. Born as the second of five children to Ellis Arthur Franklin and Muriel Frances Waley, Rosalind had science involved in her life from a young age as her father Arthur, who was an investment banker, also taught lessons about electricity and magnetism at London’s Working Men’s College. Rosalind’s education was mostly…

Rosalind Franklin’s story started in Notting Hill, London, United Kingdom. Her full name was Rosalind Elsie Franklin, and she was born to a rather conspicuous British Jewish family on July 25, 1920. The second of five children, three boys and two girls. Daughter of Muriel and Ellis Franklin, both of her parents originated from Jewish families that settled in England in the 1700s and 1800s. Her guardians owned banks and publishing companies. They were both educated and companionable people.These…

fit together makes it the shape of a double helix. That’s interesting and all, but the question is who is the real discover? The Double Helix was discovered by Rosalind Franklin, but she didn't understand its importance and true meaning, so all the credit goes to James Watson and Francis Crick. The Double Helix was founded by Rosalind Franklin. In the article The Francis Crick Papers: The Discovery of the Double Helix, 1951-1953 it states that, “Her evidence demonstrated that the two…

them with a need for the facts. In order to build an accurate model, Watson and Crick needed research to base the model off of. After speaking with an x-ray crystallographer, Maurice Wilkins, Watson and Crick decide to attend a lecture given by Rosalind Franklin, Wilkins’ Partner (Moitra 21-22). Their meeting with Wilkins lead them to believe that Rosalind’s lecture may open up new ideas to the structure of…

Rosalind Franklin was a British chemist, who discovered the structure of DNA. Rosalind was born in London England in 1920. Growing up, she was the second born of five children, and both her mother and father were involved with a lot of social events, and they had high standard in society. Her Father, Ellis Author Franklin, had wanted to become a scientist, but was not able to receive the education because World War I. rid him of that opportunity. Like her father, she was attracted to science,…

The Structure of DNA Somewhere in someone’s brain a curiosity is born that starts a wanting to find an answer. Not everybody gets these feelings to act upon their feelings of wanting to find out an answer, but for some people it does. An Austrian monk, Greg Mendel was a for-father of finding “basic patterns of inheritance.” He started doing his scientific experiments around 1854 in his gardens researching “the transmission of hereditary traits in plant hybrids” (Bio, a Biography of Gregor…

be in the race for discovery of the century, along with 31 year old British scientist Rosalind Franklin. She was responsible for the findings that will pave the way of Watson and Crick in the discovery of the structure of DNA. In 1962, the Nobel Prize is awarded to James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins for their ground breaking work…

BIOL 1010 ‐ Biotechnology and Society Assignment #1 The Carleton Prize for Biotechnology Saifullah Haji Mohammad Eessa (100965270) October 06, 2015 Carleton University Introduction The group I would like to nominate for The ‘Carleton Prize for Biotechnology’ is comprised of three well-known scientists, James Dewey Watson, an American geneticist; Francis Crick, a British molecular biologist, and Maurice Wilkins, an English physicist and molecular biologist. The three worked…

chemist, confirmed that the backbone of DNA contained repeating sugar and phosphate groups. Erwin Chargaff discovered that the nitrogenous bases adenine and thymine appeared in a 1:1 ratio, along with guanine and cytosine. Maurice Wilkins and Rosaline Franklin had proposed the corkscrew like shape of DNA when viewing X-ray images of DNA. Linus Pauling had even gone so far as to suggest his own 3-stranded structure of DNA (The Francis Crick Papers). Until Watson and Crick had published their…

most to the structure of DNA in eighteen months; but what about Franklin? Though Watson and Crick are known for discovering DNA’s structure, Rosalind Franklin contributed the most to finding the structure of DNA because she was the first to take pictures of DNA’s B form, discover phosphate on is on the outside of DNA, and debunk DNA is antiparallel. First, Franklin took a picture of DNA’s B form. That photo was acquired through Franklin bundling super…