Rosalind Franklin Timeline by Avery Pendergraft https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline en-us 2022-12-03 00:49:33 UTC 2022-12-03 21:07:37 UTC hello@padlet.com Born July 25, 1920 avery141 https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407253790 2022-12-03 00:54:34 UTC https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407253790 Attended Saint Paul's Girls' School avery141 https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407254810 2022-12-03 00:57:20 UTC https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407254810 Age 18 - Enrolled at Newnham Women's College at Cambridge University avery141 https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407656347 2022-12-03 19:32:38 UTC https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407656347 Graduated Newnham College in 1941 and received a fellowship to do research in physical chemistry at Cambridge avery141 https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407656936 2022-12-03 19:34:20 UTC https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407656936 Served as a London air raid warden during WW2 avery141 https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407657066 2022-12-03 19:34:46 UTC https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407657066 1942 - Gave up her fellowship to work for the British Coal Utilization Research Association where she studied the physical chemistry of carbon and coal avery141 https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407658301 This research became her Ph.D. thesis]]> 2022-12-03 19:38:35 UTC https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407658301 1945 - Received her doctorate from Cambridge University avery141 https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407658499 2022-12-03 19:39:18 UTC https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407658499 1946 to 1950 - Moved to Paris and perfected her life's work: X-ray crystallography avery141 https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407659613 2022-12-03 19:42:31 UTC https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407659613 1951 - Moved back to London to accept a job at the Biophysical Laboratory at King's College avery141 https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407660658 Her goal was to find the structure of DNA]]> 2022-12-03 19:45:38 UTC https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407660658 1952 - Obtained Photo 51, the most famous X-ray image of DNA avery141 https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407661855 DNA is made of two helicoidal strands, one opposite the other with bases in the center — basically a twisted ladder]]> 2022-12-03 19:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407661855 Unknown to her, James Watson and Francis Crick saw her unpublished data, including Photo 51 shown to Watson by Maurice Wilkins, her colleague avery141 https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407662800 Francis Crick and James Watson were trying building a model of the DNA molecule at Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University]]> 2022-12-03 19:52:01 UTC https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407662800 Watson and Crick's findings were published in the 1953 issue of "Nature" and so were Franklin's avery141 https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407680186 Her findings were a postscript simply confirming Watson and Crick's findings, but Franklin's unacknowledged contribution was critical]]> 2022-12-03 20:45:10 UTC https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407680186 1953 to 1958 - Moved to Birkbeck College to work at the Crystallography Laboratory avery141 https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407680850 She began working on the structure of the tobacco mosaic virus]]> 2022-12-03 20:47:28 UTC https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407680850 In the last years of her life, she traveled around the world talking about coal and virus structure avery141 https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407681531 2022-12-03 20:49:32 UTC https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407681531 While traveling in the U.S. in 1956, she discovered a lump on her abdomen that turned out to be ovarian cancer avery141 https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407681812 2022-12-03 20:50:15 UTC https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407681812 Died April 16, 1958 avery141 https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407682074 Her work with X-rays may have led to her early death from the radiation]]> 2022-12-03 20:50:59 UTC https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407682074 James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for their work on DNA avery141 https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407682678 Many believe that if she was alive when they were awarded the Nobel Prize, she would have shared the stage with them]]> 2022-12-03 20:52:57 UTC https://padlet.com/avery141/RosalindFranklinTimeline/wish/2407682678