Rosalind Franklin
1920 to 1958
11 documented presences
10 places
Quo Fuit places 11 dated presences for Rosalind Franklin across 10 places, from 1938 to 1958. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 to 16 April 1958) was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Rosalind Franklin was documented, and when
1938year
Newnham College, Cambridgeattested
“Franklin went to Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1938 and studied chemistry within the Natural Sciences Tripos.”
source: Wikipedia: Rosalind Franklin
1950year
King's College Londonattested
“In 1950, Franklin was granted a three-year Turner & Newall Fellowship to work at King's College London.”
source: Wikipedia: Rosalind Franklin
March 1953month
King's College Londonattested
“Franklin left King's College London in mid-March 1953 for Birkbeck College, in a move that had been planned for some time and that she described (in a letter to Adrienne Weill in Paris) as "moving from a palace to the slums ...”
source: Wikipedia: Rosalind Franklin
March 1953month
Parisattested
“Franklin left King's College London in mid-March 1953 for Birkbeck College, in a move that had been planned for some time and that she described (in a letter to Adrienne Weill in Paris) as "moving from a palace to the slums ...”
source: Wikipedia: Rosalind Franklin
1956year
University of California, Berkeleyattested
“In 1956, she visited him at his home in Colorado after her tour to University of California, Berkeley, and Franklin was known to remark later that Caspar was one "she might have loved, might have married".”
source: Wikipedia: Rosalind Franklin
1956year
Coloradoattested
“In 1956, she visited him at his home in Colorado after her tour to University of California, Berkeley, and Franklin was known to remark later that Caspar was one "she might have loved, might have married".”
source: Wikipedia: Rosalind Franklin
1956year
United Statesattested
“In mid-1956, while on a work-related trip to the United States, Franklin first began to suspect a health problem.”
source: Wikipedia: Rosalind Franklin
16 April 1958exact date
Chelsea, Londonattested
“She fell ill again on 30 March and died a few weeks later at age 37 on 16 April 1958 in Chelsea, London, of bronchopneumonia, secondary carcinomatosis, and ovarian cancer.”
source: Wikipedia: Rosalind Franklin
17 April 1958exact date
Willesden United Synagogue Cemeteryattested
“Her death certificate states: "A Research Scientist, Spinster, Daughter of Ellis Arthur Franklin, a Banker." Franklin was interred on 17 April 1958 in the family plot at Willesden United Synagogue Cemetery at Beaconsfield Road in London…”
source: Wikipedia: Rosalind Franklin
17 April 1958exact date
London Borough of Brentattested
“Her death certificate states: "A Research Scientist, Spinster, Daughter of Ellis Arthur Franklin, a Banker." Franklin was interred on 17 April 1958 in the family plot at Willesden United Synagogue Cemetery at Beaconsfield Road in London…”
source: Wikipedia: Rosalind Franklin
17 April 1958exact date
Londonattested
“Her death certificate states: "A Research Scientist, Spinster, Daughter of Ellis Arthur Franklin, a Banker." Franklin was interred on 17 April 1958 in the family plot at Willesden United Synagogue Cemetery at Beaconsfield Road in London…”
source: Wikipedia: Rosalind Franklin
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Places Rosalind Franklin is documented in
King's College London2 presences · 1950 to 1953Chelsea, London1 presence · 1958Colorado1 presence · 1956London1 presence · 1958Paris1 presence · 1953United States1 presence · 1956University of California, Berkeley1 presence · 1956
London Borough of Brent1 presence · 1958
Newnham College, Cambridge1 presence · 1938
Willesden United Synagogue Cemetery1 presence · 1958
Other places tied to Rosalind Franklin in the record
In each of these, a source puts Rosalind Franklin and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Rosalind Franklin was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1929year
Mentonmentioned
“She first "qualified" at Christmas 1929 for a vacation at Menton, France, where her grandfather went to escape the English winter.”
source: Wikipedia: Rosalind Franklin
1938year
Francementioned
“A trip to France in 1938 gave Franklin a lasting love for France and its language.”
source: Wikipedia: Rosalind Franklin
1939year
Norwaymentioned
“Her family was almost stuck in Norway in 1939, as World War II was declared on their way home.”
source: Wikipedia: Rosalind Franklin
1950year
Bernementioned
“In 1950, Swiss chemist Rudolf Signer in Berne prepared a highly purified DNA sample from calf thymus.”
source: Wikipedia: Rosalind Franklin
May 1950month
Londonmentioned
“He freely distributed the DNA sample, later referred to as the Signer DNA, in early May 1950 at the meeting of the Faraday Society in London, and Wilkins was one of the recipients.”
source: Wikipedia: Rosalind Franklin
November 1951month
King's College Londonmentioned
“She presented their data at a lecture in November 1951, in King's College London.”
source: Wikipedia: Rosalind Franklin
November 1951month
Cambridge Universitymentioned
“In November 1951, James Watson and Francis Crick of the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge University had started to build a molecular model of the B-DNA using data similar to that available to both teams at King's.”
source: Wikipedia: Rosalind Franklin
November 1951month
Cambridgementioned
“In November 1951, James Watson and Francis Crick of the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge University had started to build a molecular model of the B-DNA using data similar to that available to both teams at King's.”
source: Wikipedia: Rosalind Franklin
January 1953month
Cambridgementioned
“The arrival in Cambridge of Linus Pauling's flawed paper in January 1953 prompted the head of the Cavendish Laboratory, Lawrence Bragg, to encourage Watson and Crick to resume their own model building.”
source: Wikipedia: Rosalind Franklin
1953year
Trinity College, Cambridgementioned
“Klug had just then earned his PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge, and joined Birkbeck in late 1953.”
source: Wikipedia: Rosalind Franklin
6 March 1953exact date
Copenhagenmentioned
“Franklin's two A-DNA manuscripts reached Acta Crystallographica in Copenhagen on 6 March 1953, the day before Crick and Watson had completed their model on B-DNA.”
source: Wikipedia: Rosalind Franklin
July 1955month
King's College Londonmentioned
“John Finch, a physics student from King's College London, subsequently joined Franklin's group, followed by Kenneth Holmes, a Cambridge graduate, in July 1955.”
source: Wikipedia: Rosalind Franklin
1957year
Royal Marsden Hospitalmentioned
“At the end of 1957, Franklin again fell ill and she was admitted to the Royal Marsden Hospital.”
source: Wikipedia: Rosalind Franklin
1958year
Brusselsmentioned
“Expo 58, the first major international fair after World War II, was to be held in Brussels in 1958.”
source: Wikipedia: Rosalind Franklin
Documented at the same place, the same year
Harold PinterEngland · 1958Peter II of YugoslaviaThe Old Vic · 1953Ralph Vaughan WilliamsChelsea, London · 1958Ludwig WittgensteinCambridge · 1938Lawrence BraggCambridge · 1938Chaim HerzogCambridge · 1938Francis PicabiaParis · 1953Fernando BoteroParis · 1953Ivan BuninParis · 1953Alexander GrothendieckParis · 1953Ursula K. Le GuinParis · 1953María FélixParis · 1953
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