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