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On July 25,1920 Rosalind Franklin was born to Muriel and Ellis Franklin in London,UK. Muriel was her mother and Ellis was her father.
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Rosalind was sent to the Lindores School for Young Ladies boarding school around the same time her sister was born which saddened her greatly.
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Rosalind returns from boarding school in the summer of 1931 which makes her happy, since she was very homesick. She is also very happy that she now can see her baby sister.
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Rosalind was sent to St. Paul's Girls' School which she enjoyed alot. St.Paul was known to be a great school.
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She got a scholarship to Newnham College and Girton College in Cambrige, she chose Newnham.
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On September 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland which begins World War 2.
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Britain declares war on Germany during World War 2, because Germany, the Nazis, attacked Poland.
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Germany starts bombing Britain which causes the Franklins to move.
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Rosalind earns her bachelors's degree, research grant and scholarship under Ronald Norrish. Norrish is a Physical Chemist, Cambrige.
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Accepts invite to work at BCURA, British Coal Utilization Research, which is war related coal research. For ex. gasmask.
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Rosalind earns Ph.D., because of coal research in Cambrige.
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World War 2 has been won, the Nazis have lost, and there is now some more peace.
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Stops working at BCURA after her first scientific papers are published.
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Rosalind moves to Paris, France to work at the Laboratoire Central des Services Chimiques de l'Etat. She learns about X-ray diffraction techniques under Jacques Mering and becomes an authority on industrial physiochemistry.
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Rosalind starts work at King's College uses X-ray crystallography techniques on DNA.
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Rosalind takes perfect photo of the B form of DNA, which she named Photo 51. The B form of DNA is the wet form of DNA; Rosalind put aside and started to find the A form, the dry form.
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Wilkens shows Watson Franklin's photo, Photo 51, with out her permission. He also showed Watson all of her reasearch and findings. Watson, Wilkins, and Crick get all of her credit.
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Starts X-ray diffraction technique on virus structures at Birbeck college.
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Crick and Watso publishes discovery of DNA in nature without crediting Franklin and Gosling.
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Franklin takes amazing xray of TMV. The virus has a shape of a lumpy cylinder which has identical protein subunits coiled in a the shape of a helix. The center is hollow. The genetic material in the RNA winds around like a snake among the protein subunits.
Franklin visits the USA for the first time. -
Franklin experiences horrible pains in her abdomen. She goes to see a doctor in London who sends her immediately to a surgeon. They discover that she has two large tumors in her ovaries. One tumor is the size of a tennis ball and the other much larger and cancerous. She has them removed.
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Franklin's pains return. She is diagnosed with advanced cancer. She begins chemotherapy and continues to work half day at the lab. Franklin begins to work on the polio virus which she believes has great similarities to the yellow turnip mossaic virus. She's right.
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Rosalind dies of cancer and sadly a few years after she dies Watson, Crick, and Wilkins won the Noble Peace Prize for all of her hard work, giving her no credit. "Scientist:her work on viruses was of lasting benefit to mankind."
