Title:

Letter from Rosalind Franklin to Barry Commoner

Creator:

Franklin, Rosalind

Recipient:

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

Date:

25 March 1955

Description:

Following her visit to the United States in 1954, Franklin collaborated with Barry Commoner (at Washington University in St. Louis), on a study of a protein he called B8, which was similar to the protein found in some viruses. She compared this with material obtained from Alexander Rich (then at the National Institutes of Health) and was so bothered by the discrepancies that she sent Rich a telegram asking him to verify his data. His response was important to the final version of the Franklin-Commoner article.

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

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

Letter from Rosalind Franklin to Barry Commoner, 1955

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. Churchill Archives Centre. The Papers of Rosalind Franklin. 12313

Legacy ID:

KRBBFB

NLM ID:

101584586X64

Profiles Collection:

The Rosalind Franklin Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584586X64

Story Section:

Envisioning Viruses: Birkbeck College, London, 1953-1958