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English Biochemist, Physical Chemist, and Crystallographer

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English Biochemist, Physical Chemist, and Crystallographer

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Discovering the structure of DNA

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Born and died in London, United Kingdom. She tragedy died from ovarian cancer.

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Rosalind Franklin grew up in a well-off Anglo-Jewish family. She grew up with both of her parents and was the oldest daughter. She has four siblings, 3 brothers and 1 sister and their names are David, Colin, Roland, and Jenifer. Her family was very close to each other.

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Her father was a man named Ellis Arthur Franklin. Ellis had wanted to pursue science but couldn't because of the First World War. He later became a banker with socialist leanings and taught at the Working Men's College. When Rosalind was in college, he started to discourage her from continuing her studies but got support from her mother and aunt.

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Her mother was a woman named Muriel Frances Franklin (Waley). Muriel would not have a great education and would later regret that. Since she didn't have a great education, she made sure that her daughters did. She spent time devoted to philanthropy and would help people that needed help.

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This is where Franklin went to school. She did well and got her PhD.

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This is where she had done her most important research, Photograph 51.

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Rosalind Franklin was devoted, loyal, gracious, funny, smart, sociable, and straightforward. She also wasn't the girliest girl as, from a young age, she didn't like things that were considered girly. When she was at work she was stubborn, serious, and passionate in argumentative debates.

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Crystallography was started in 1912 by Max von Laue and a group of colleagues. Crystallography studies the structure and properties of crystals. It also deals with the arrangement and bonding of atoms in crystalline solids. They used what they found in crystals to determine the arrangement of atoms and find things that are taught in many other sciences. The people in this science can figure out the atomic structure of anything. This is the field that Franklin had used that helped her discover Photograph 51.

If you were to try and explain what crystallography was to a 10-year-old you would probably say something like, "crystallography tells us what makes crystals the way they are which helps us figure out other stuff around us."

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Other Important Scientist in Crystallography

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Other Important Scientist in Crystallography

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Dorothy Hodgkin

Jerome Karle

Isabella Karle

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Biochemistry was happening for a while but the name was coined in 1903 by Carl Neuber. It is said the sirehood of biochemistry is Claude Bernard. Biochemistry is the study of chemical processes and substances that happen in living organisms. In simple terms, it is a mix of chemistry and biology.

If you were to try and explain what biochemistry was to a 10-year-old you would probably say something like, "biochemistry tells us what is happening in us and how we are who we are."

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Other Important Scientist in Biochemistry

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Other Important Scientist in Biochemistry

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Leone N. Farrell

John Jacob Abel

Elmer L. Gaden

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Physical chemistry was happening for a while but the name was coined in 1752 by Mikhail Lomonosov. Physical chemistry is the study of how chemistry is with the stuff from physics. It shows how the principles of physics impact chemical interactions.

If you were to try and explain what physical chemistry is to a 10-year-old you would probably say something like, "physical chemistry is the study of how physics and chemistry are together."

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Other Important Scientist in Physical Chemistry

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Other Important Scientist in Physical Chemistry

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Gilbert N. Lewis

Richard Abegg

Charles Coulson

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Photograph 51 is Rosalind Franklin's most famous work. What this photo did was show that DNA was a double helix. Rosalind Franklin’s work is important because it is one of the major pieces that is used in biology sciences. She had found something that people teach to kids and it shows an important thing. She had taken a picture of it but was not fully credited to it at first.

Without Franklin taking that picture we wouldn't have known that DNA is a double helix and that would play a part in how people would learn about DNA. Her work really helped people who do research on DNA.

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Franklin did work with carbons and coals to try and understand their microstructures.

She wrote a thesis called “The physical chemistry of solid organic colloids with special reference to coal”. In this, she was able to classify coals and accurately predict their performance for fuel purposes and for the production of wartime devices such as gas masks.

Since she was crystallographic, she did other work in it. She did a lot of work with discovering the structures of different carbons. The work she did by revealing the structures of different carbons laid the groundwork for new industrial uses of carbon and helped the development of heat-resistant materials.

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Rosalind Franklin and a group of people were able to decode the structure of the tobacco mosaic virus.

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Before Franklin died, she had started to do research on polio with a group of people. The group would continue doing the research after she died and find the structure of the virus.