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Born on July ,25 in London
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Rosalind Franklin
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sent away to boarding school
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returns home, attends St. Paul's girls' school.
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starts degree at Newnham college in Cambridge.
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German invades Poland; World War 2 begins.
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earns degree scolarship, and reasearch grant to work under Ronald Norrish, professer of Physicalchemistry, Cambridge.
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accepts job at british coal utilization research Association (BCURA) to work on wr realated coal reseach.
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earns PhD in phyisical chemistry; war ends
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works ar laberatore central des servies chimpes de 1' Eata; learns x-ray diffraction techniques from Jacques Mering, becomes an authoity on industrial Phyisochemistry.
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moves back to London, uses x-ray crystallography techniques on DNA ar kings college.
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takes "photo 51" offered by J.D Bernal to transfer fellowship to Birkbeck college using x-ray diffraction techniques on virus stuctures; Watson and Crick publish discovery of DNA structure in nature with suporting papers by Rosalind Franklin and Gosling.
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joined at Birkbeck by Aron Klug; gathers a small team of reseachers who study the tobacco mosaic virus.
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dionosed with Ovarian Cancer; continues research; asked to create large scale models and explanations of work on virus structures for display at Brussel World's Fair.
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begins work on Polio virus.
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dies of Ovarian Cancer
