Rosalind Franklin

By mahern1
  • Date of birth

    Date of birth

    Rosalind Franklin was born on July 25, 1920 in London.

  • Rosalind Knew She Wanted To Be A Scientist

    In 1932, when she was 12 years old, she knew that she wanted to be a scientist.

  • Rosalind Entered College.

    Rosalind entered Newman college. At the time, cambridge did not allow females to be part of the university, but they were allowed to listen to lectures.

  • Work Experience

    Rosalind took the job as an assistant research officer for the British Coal Utilisation Research Association (CURA).

  • Paris

    Rosalind earned her Ph.D. from Cambridge in 1945, and then she joined the laboratory of Jacque Mering at the Laboratoire Central des Services Chimiques de l'État in Paris, France.

  • CURA Credits

    Rosalind used her work from CURA to earn a Ph.D.

  • College (Again)

    Rosalind joined the Biophysics Unit Of The Medical Research Council at the Kings college of the University of London. She originally was there to study protein structure, but she ended up studying DNA.

  • Transfering Schools

    Rosalind was not happy at Kings, so after her reports on DNA were published, she transferred to John Desmond Bernal Labrotory at Birkbeck college, where she remained for five years until her death.
  • Date of Death

    Date of Death

    Rosalind died in 1958 from ovulan cancer.