Title:

Letter from Rosalind Franklin to Barry Commoner

Creator:

Franklin, Rosalind

Recipient:

Commoner, Barry, 1917-2012 and Henry Shaw School of Botany

Date:

28 February 1955

Description:

During her 1954 visit to the United States, Franklin visited many virus researchers who would subsequently collaborate with her on projects involving virus structures. Barry Commoner sent her samples of a protein he called B8, to compare with the x-ray diffraction studies of TMV protein. They subsequently published several articles together. In this letter, she acknowledged the safe receipt of the samples, and some recent news from another colleague, Alexander Rich, on TMV structure.

Original Repository:

Churchill Archives Centre. The Papers of Rosalind Franklin

Location:

Folder: 2/33

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:

KRBBDX

NLM ID:

101584586X61

Profiles Collection:

The Rosalind Franklin Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584586X61

Story Section:

Envisioning Viruses: Birkbeck College, London, 1953-1958