Achievements

• 1920: Birth
• 1941: Graduated from the University of Cambridge
• 1945: Completed PhD in Physical Chemistry
• 1947: Research on Coal and Graphite
• 1951: Joined King’s College London
• 1952: Captured Photo 51
• 1953: Key Contributions to DNA Discovery
• 1954: Joined Birkbeck College, London
• 1955: Published Work on RNA Viruses
• 1956: Elected Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry
• 1958: Death
• 1962: Nobel Prize Awarded to Watson, Crick, and Wilkins
• 2004: The Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science Named
• 2018: Recognition in the European Space Agency (Rosalind Franklin ExoMars Rover)

Research

Publications on DNA and X-Ray Crystallography

• Franklin, R.E., & Gosling, R.G. (1953). Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate. Nature, 171, 740-741.

Publications on Coal and Carbon

• Franklin, R.E. (1949). The Structure of Graphitic Carbons. Acta Crystallographica, 2(6), 438-452.
• Franklin, R.E. (1950). Graphitizing and Non-Graphitizing Carbons. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 209(1097), 196-218.

Publications on Viruses and RNA

• Franklin, R.E., & Holmes, K.C. (1958). The Structure of the Tobacco Mosaic Virus: X-ray Analysis. Nature, 182, 282-284.
• Franklin, R.E., Klug, A., Caspar, D.L.D., & Holmes, K.C. (1956). The Structure of the Ribonucleoprotein of Tobacco Mosaic Virus: Preliminary X-ray Results. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 21, 295-298.

Additional Contributions

• Franklin, R.E. (1953). The Interpretation of Diffuse X-ray Diagrams of Carbon. Acta Crystallographica, 6(9), 673-678.