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Hi Rosalind dna.My book is only available on Amazon right now (print on demand)including on Kindle books. There's another book by Brenda Maddox entitled "Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA" Harper Collins, London 2002.
Just a correction on your Linus Pauling info. He was awarded two Nobel Prizes but only 1 for Chemistry the other was the Peace prize. Only one man has been awarded two Chemistry prizes and that's Frederick Sanger
Rosalind Franklin, who is a first cousin to Rosalind DNA aka Sally, she was a research scientist and bio-physicist at University College, London with 3 other scientists working in the same field of crystallography diffraction X-ray research science.She took this in 1953 and they were some of the contributing factors to her early death in 1958 at only 37, where the fact that her Single DNA Helix Structure work was taken/stolen from also all of the X-Ray work she had used caused her ovarian cancer which was discovered in 1956 by a French doctor. I was only 4years old when she died and this is one of my main regrets is that I never met her.Although I have always been fascinated by her work since my childhood and as I get older then I have become more aware of my family’s history mainly of my cousin.She had 3 brothers, Roland, David, both deceased and Colin also Jennifer Glynn, who is a scientific writer too. It is her sister, who is still responsible for looking and contributing most of her photos, work as her executor which you’ll see on the Google Images site.Her father, Ellis Franklin wanted to be a scientist but he didn’t have qualifications to be a scientist either, there was a big family row, which caused a rift between her and her father. They didn’t speak for agesRosalind Franklin, who discovered the single Helix DNA Structure and was a diffraction crystallographer research scientist, also her earlier work was researching into the holes into coal and the tobacco mosaic viruses before taking her first ever now In-famous Diffraction Slide 51 of the Single Helix Structure DNA photo.Secret of photo 51Left: the principle behind X-ray diffraction crystallography:The photograph that Watson and Crick found invaluable in elucidating the structure of DNA is known as 'Photograph 51'. The photograph is the result of X-ray diffraction work carried out by Rosalind while at King's College London in the early part of the 1950s. X-ray diffraction crystallography involves the passing of X-rays through crystal structures. X-rays will appear as dark areas on a photographic plate, so as they are scattered by a crystal as they will produce characteristic patterns on the plate. The actual displacement/scattering of the x-rays is caused by electrons, a constituent part of all atoms, and so the patterns on the plate will be particular to the exact orientation of those atoms within the crystal structure. For this reason X-ray diffraction crystallography is an extremely powerful tool in extrapolating the structure of molecules.She took this slide in 1953, but when James Watson, Frances Crick, took this Slide from Rosalind Franklin’s drawer in the lab when they recognised the Diffraction Crystallography Structure which they rejoiced at seeing by marching into their local pub, saying it was their own work. The photograph that Watson and Crick found invaluable in elucidating the structure of DNA is known as 'Photograph 51'. The photograph is the result of X-ray diffraction work carried out by Rosalind while at King's College London in the early part of the 1950s. X-ray diffraction crystallography involves the passing of X-rays through crystal structures. X-rays will appear as dark areas on a photographic plate, so as they are scattered by a crystal they will produce characteristic patterns on the plate. The actual displacement/scattering of the x-rays is caused by electrons, a constituent part of all atoms, and so the patterns on the plate will be particular to the exact orientation of those atoms within the crystal structure. For this reason X-ray diffraction crystallography is an extremely powerful tool in extrapolating the structure of molecules In 1962 James Watson, Frances Crick, Linus Pauling and Maurice Wilkins altogether won the Nobel Prize for Science, because it is never given posthumously (after death), so that Rosalind missed out on the much deserved credit that she should have receivedThis is something to think on that had Rosalind not died that she should have gained some fame for the discovery of the Double Helix Structure of DNA, even acknowledgement by winning the Nobel Prize for Science. But this was not possible as her work was stolen out of her lab drawer at the University College, London.Much to my family’s deep regret, when James Watson and Frances Crick brought out their autobiographies then they never credited but ignored her, for which my father sued them both when their separate autobiographies came out to correct this, which Francis Crick did in the early 1990s, but barely credited her work.Having called her as nothing better than tea lady also named her by the one name that she detested the most, which was Rosy. Also that she was a grumpy and un-cooperative woman, but this was different from her real character as yes like me she stood her ground but was very co-operative with her fellow scientists, but they were the opposite. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/rosalind-franklin.shtml This is by her nephew, Stephen Franklin. Also I never met him either. This is a link to the coal mosaic holes data she was involved inhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloid http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1734694.stmhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/photo51/anat-flash.htmlthis is the actual slide link.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_51This is very slide 51.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_sequencing#Early_methods http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/KR/http://osulibrary.orst.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/dna/notes/franklin-pg01-xl.html (This took me roughly 2 months to research and get as perfect as I can)Any questions or answers, conmments that you may have, I will do my best to respond.
I am glad you are still progressing on your family tree Rosalind!We have found some real interesting characters in our past family tree information! LOL It is all fascinating!Good for you continuing on!
I've been tere and I am glad you did not give up!Its a lot of work but you learn some really cool stuff!
It is a lot of hard tedious work but as you say lots of interesting..stuff.It is good to take breaks and keep it fun and enjoyable.
http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/dna_double_helix/readmore.html Something that I discovered only recenlty was that Rosalind Frankin might have been nominated for a possible Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Maurice Wilkins but we won't find out this until the organisation open their nomination archives, I will follow all year through and let you know what or if anything is revealedfor the good I hope anyway that Dr Franklin was nominated. I hope that she was.
Quote from: rosalind dna on 27/02/2008 20:44:14http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/dna_double_helix/readmore.html Something that I discovered only recenlty was that Rosalind Frankin might have been nominated for a possible Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Maurice Wilkins but we won't find out this until the organisation open their nomination archives, I will follow all year through and let you know what or if anything is revealedfor the good I hope anyway that Dr Franklin was nominated. I hope that she was. good piece of Information.. I am too sad!!! she would have got nobel
Phil1907 Perhaps you might try to accomplish something on your own rather than sucking off the memory of your relatives.
Karen will always encourage,she is always cool