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Franklin, Rosalind Elsie
1920 - Born in England on the 25th of July.
1938 - Franklin went to Newnham College, Cambridge.
1941 - She passed her finals, but was only awarded a decree titular, as women were not entitled to degrees from Cambridge at the time.
1942 - She worked for Ronald Norish.
- She worked at the British Coal Utilisation Research Association in Kingston upon Thames from August, studying the porosity of coal.
1945 - Her work helped spark the idea of high strength carbon fibres and was the basis of her doctoral degree-"The physical chemistry of solid organic colloids with special reference to coal and related materials".
1950 - She sought work in England.
- In June, she was appointed to a position at King's College London.
1951 - In January, Franklin started working as a research associate at King's College London in the Medical Research Council's Biophysics Unit, directed by John Randall.
1954 - Franklin began a longstanding and successful collaboration with Aaron Klug.
1955 - Franklin had a paper published in the journal Nature, indicating that TMV virus particles were all of the same length, this was in direct contradiction to the ideas of the eminent virologist Norman Pirie, though her observation ultimately proved correct.
- Her team had completed a model of the TMV and were working on viruses affecting several plants, including potato, turnip, tomato and pea.
1958 - She fell ill again on the 30th of March and died on the 16th of April.
1938 - Franklin went to Newnham College, Cambridge.
1941 - She passed her finals, but was only awarded a decree titular, as women were not entitled to degrees from Cambridge at the time.
1942 - She worked for Ronald Norish.
- She worked at the British Coal Utilisation Research Association in Kingston upon Thames from August, studying the porosity of coal.
1945 - Her work helped spark the idea of high strength carbon fibres and was the basis of her doctoral degree-"The physical chemistry of solid organic colloids with special reference to coal and related materials".
1950 - She sought work in England.
- In June, she was appointed to a position at King's College London.
1951 - In January, Franklin started working as a research associate at King's College London in the Medical Research Council's Biophysics Unit, directed by John Randall.
1954 - Franklin began a longstanding and successful collaboration with Aaron Klug.
1955 - Franklin had a paper published in the journal Nature, indicating that TMV virus particles were all of the same length, this was in direct contradiction to the ideas of the eminent virologist Norman Pirie, though her observation ultimately proved correct.
- Her team had completed a model of the TMV and were working on viruses affecting several plants, including potato, turnip, tomato and pea.
1958 - She fell ill again on the 30th of March and died on the 16th of April.
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