Title:

Letter from Sydney Brenner to Rosalind Franklin

Creator:

Brenner, Sydney

Recipient:

Franklin, Rosalind

Date:

4 March 1955

Description:

Future Lasker and Nobel Prize winner Sydney Brenner had met Franklin during her 1954 visit to the UC Berkeley virus laboratory, where he had been a visiting fellow. He was at that time just beginning to do focused work in molecular biology. At the end of 1956, he would obtain a position at the Cavendish in Cambridge, where he would share an office with Francis Crick for twenty years.

Original Repository:

Churchill Archives Centre. The Papers of Rosalind Franklin

Location:

Folder: 2/33

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of Sydney Brenner.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Tobacco Mosaic Virus and RNA

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. Churchill Archives Centre. The Papers of Rosalind Franklin. 12313

Legacy ID:

KRBBBN

NLM ID:

101584586X11

Profiles Collection:

The Rosalind Franklin Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584586X11

Story Section:

Envisioning Viruses: Birkbeck College, London, 1953-1958