Title:

Letter from Barry Commoner to Rosalind Franklin

Creator:

Henry Shaw School of Botany
Commoner, Barry, 1917-2012

Recipient:

Franklin, Rosalind

Date:

10 January 1955

Description:

During her 1954 visit to the United States, Franklin visited many virus researchers who would subsequently collaborate with her on projects involving virus structures. Barry Commoner sent her samples of a protein he called B8, to compare with the x-ray diffraction studies of TMV protein. They subsequently published several articles together. In this letter, Commoner explained a delay in sending the B8 samples, and told Franklin about some recent work being done at the virus laboratory at UC Berkeley.

Original Repository:

Churchill Archives Centre. The Papers of Rosalind Franklin

Location:

Folder: 2/33

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of Barry Commoner.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Tobacco Mosaic Virus, RNA, and X-Ray Diffraction

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

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

Legacy ID:

KRBBBJ

NLM ID:

101584586X7

Profiles Collection:

The Rosalind Franklin Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584586X7

Story Section:

Envisioning Viruses: Birkbeck College, London, 1953-1958