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Rosalind Franklin would be 100 years old today

blck and white photo of Rosalind Franklin in Paris France
Rosalind Franklin in Paris. Photo: Vittorio Luzzati

On July 25, 2020 Rosalind Franklin would be 100 years old.

Rosalind Franklin was the brilliant English chemist and X-Ray crystallographer whose x-ray diffraction studies provided clues to the structure of DNA. She made important contributions to our understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, and viruses.

You can browse through our Library and Archive collections:

Listen to a . Raymond was a graduate student and worked under Rosalind Franklin supervision in 1952. Raymond took a famous 鈥淧hoto 51鈥 of DNA鈥檚 B form

Read at the Wimbledon Literary and Scientific Society

See the various

Borrow books/tapes about Rosalind:


  • Call number: Q143 .F74 .G65 2012

  • Call number: QH506 .F72 M33 2002

  • Call number: QH506 .D63 2007
  • The race for the double helix [videorecording] Nova (Television program)
    Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992.
    Call number: QP624.5 .S78 .R33