Title:

Letter from Robley Williams to Rosalind Franklin

Creator:

University of California, Berkeley
Williams, Robley

Recipient:

Franklin, Rosalind

Date:

6 January 1955

Description:

Robley Williams was one of many virus researchers that Franklin visited during her 1954 trip to the United States. In this letter, he responded to 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.

Original Repository:

Churchill Archives Centre. The Papers of Rosalind Franklin

Location:

Folder: 2/35

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of Robley C. Williams Jr.

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:

KRBBDH

NLM ID:

101584586X48

Profiles Collection:

The Rosalind Franklin Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584586X48

Story Section:

Envisioning Viruses: Birkbeck College, London, 1953-1958