Title:

Letter from Robley Williams to Rosalind Franklin

Creator:

University of California, Berkeley
Williams, Robley

Recipient:

Franklin, Rosalind

Date:

2 August 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 several of her recent articles on the probable structural configuration of TMV, as revealed by x-ray diffraction studies, and shared his own manuscript regarding an important breakthrough: he and his colleagues had been able to reconstitute a fully competent, infective tobacco mosaic virus from virus fragments.

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, 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:

KRBBDJ

NLM ID:

101584586X49

Profiles Collection:

The Rosalind Franklin Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584586X49

Story Section:

Envisioning Viruses: Birkbeck College, London, 1953-1958