Franklin, Rosalind Elsie

Franklin, Rosalind Elsie (1920-58) English X-ray crystallographer whose work, with Maurice Wilkins, provided James Watson and Francis Crick with the data on which they were able to construct the model of the DNA molecule and achieve scientific immortality. She developed cancer and died in 1958,... 

Harvey, Joy, and Ogilvie, Marilyn B. (2000). Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-1958). In The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century, Vol. 1, ed. Marilyn Ogilvie and Joy Harvey. New York and London Routledge. 

Miksic, Mary Clarke (1993). Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-1958). In Women in Chemistry and Physics A Biobibliographic Sourcebook, ed. Louise S. Grinstein, Rose K. Rose, and Miriam Rafailovich. Westport, CT, and London Greenwood Press. 

These terms of graphitizable and non-graphitizable carbons were introduced by Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1950, 1951), a pioneer researcher into structures of coals and carbons, as... 

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