Rosalind Franklin

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Rosalind Franklin

• By Carly, Carolyn, and Kelsey

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A little background info

• Rosalind Elsie Franklin
• Born in London on July 25, 1920
• Daughter of well-to-do Jewish parents
• Diagnosed with cancer in Autumn of 1956
• Died on April 16, 1958 at age 37.

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Education

• Attended St. Pauls Girls School
• Then studied at Cambridge University in 1938
• Graduated in 1941
• At 22 gave up fellowship to take 1st position as
  a physical chemist at the British Coal
  Utilization Research Association
• At age 26 received her PhD from Cambridge.

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Lifes work

• Started work on x-ray diffraction in a lab in
  Paris
• Asked to study living cells at Kings College with
  other scientists in 1951

• Made advances in x-ray diffraction by engineering
  better equipment
• Became the head of a research group at Birkbeck
  College in London and turned attentions to viruses

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Lifes work continued

• Worked for two more years after she was diagnosed
  with cancer.

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Awards and Honors

• Did not win anything but her work won a Nobel
  Prize

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Works Cited

• Ardell, David. Rosalind Franklin. National
• Health Museum. 1999. 2002 April 2.
• lthttp//www.accessexcellence.org/AB/BC/Rosalind
  Franklin.htmlgt
• People and Discoveries. PBS Online. 1998. 2002
  April 2. lthttp//www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/ent
  ries/bofran.html
• Rosalind Franklin. Virginia University. 2002
  April 2. lthttp//curie.che.virginia.edu/scientist/
  franklin.html