Title:

Letter from Rosalind Franklin to Robley Williams

Creator:

Franklin, Rosalind

Recipient:

Williams, Robley and University of California, Berkeley

Date:

14 September 1955

Description:

Robley Williams was one of many virus researchers that Franklin visited during her 1954 trip to the United States. He had written to her about her recent article on the probable structural configuration of TMV, as revealed by x-ray diffraction studies, and mused about the differences between her data and those found by he and his colleagues via different methods; they continued to brainstorm about this in a series of letters. In 1955, Williams and Fraenkel-Conrat found that they could break TMV into RNA and protein components, then reconstitute them into a new virus, some of which was infective. In this letter, Franklin offered to take x-ray diffraction photos of the reconstituted TMV.

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, 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:

KRBBHH

NLM ID:

101584586X107

Profiles Collection:

The Rosalind Franklin Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584586X107

Story Section:

Envisioning Viruses: Birkbeck College, London, 1953-1958