Letter from Rosalind Franklin to C. A. Knight
- Title:
- Letter from Rosalind Franklin to C. A. Knight
- Creator:
- Franklin, Rosalind
- Recipient:
- Knight, C. A. and University of California, Berkeley
- Date:
- 15 November 1954
- Description:
- C. Arthur Knight was one of many virus researchers that Franklin visited during her 1954 trip to the United States. A colleague of Wendell Stanley, Robley Williams, and Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, he later sent her samples of cucumber virus. In her first letter to him, she posed some detailed questions about the differences between her x-ray diffraction values for TMV composition, and the biochemical findings by the Berkeley virus lab.
- Original Repository:
- Churchill Archives Centre. The Papers of Rosalind Franklin
- Location:
- Folder: 2/35
- Rights:
- Reproduced from the Franklin Collection at the Churchill Archives Centre with the permission of the copyright holder.
- Genre:
- Letters (correspondence)
- Subject:
- Tobacco Mosaic Virus and X-Ray Diffraction
- Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 2 pages
- Language:
- English
- Legacy Source Citation:
- Original Repository. Churchill Archives Centre. The Papers of Rosalind Franklin. 12313
- Legacy ID:
- KRBBHB
- NLM ID:
- 101584586X102
- Profiles Collection:
- The Rosalind Franklin Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584586X102
- Story Section:
- Envisioning Viruses: Birkbeck College, London, 1953-1958