This digital collection features materials related to notable women scientists, including Marie Curie, Irène Joliot-Curie, Bettye Washington Greene, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Stephanie Kwolek, and Rosalyn Yalow, as well as images of women working in a variety of laboratory and industrial settings. The collection also includes a range of materials related to women's health, including breast pumps, contraceptives, and mammary sizers.
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Expand Your Horizons
- 2000-Apr-01
One of a series of events held in Philadelphia for sixth grade girls interested in careers in science. Speakers talk about their careers as women in science and lead attendees in conducting experiments related to their…
- Creator Of Work American Chemical Society. Philadelphia Section
- Subject Women in science, Science--Study and teaching, Science--Experiments
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II. Research on Viruses and Related Nucleoproteins, Directed by Dr. Rosalind Franklin assisted by Dr. A. Klug at Birkbeck College, Physics Department
- 1956-Oct
- Creator Of Work Franklin, Rosalind, 1920-1958
- Contributor Klug, A. (Aaron), Sir, 1926-2018
- Subject Franklin, Rosalind, 1920-1958, Klug, A. (Aaron), Sir, 1926-2018, Birkbeck College, X-ray crystallography, Viruses--Research, Chemists, Women chemists
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5 items
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14 items
Grant application to the National Institute of Health
- 1956-Dec-03 – 1957-Mar
Two copies of a grant application for funding to study the molecular structure of viruses using X-ray diffraction, filled out by Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) and Aaron Klug (1926-2018), and submitted to the National…
- Creator Of Work Franklin, Rosalind, 1920-1958
- Contributor Klug, A. (Aaron), Sir, 1926-2018
- Subject Research grants, X-rays--Diffraction, Viruses, Nucleoproteins, National Institutes of Health (U.S.), Molecular structure, Klug, A. (Aaron), Sir, 1926-2018, Franklin, Rosalind, 1920-1958, Chemists, Women chemists
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DNA X-ray diffraction image known as Photo 51, Annotated by Raymond Gosling
- Photo 51
- Circa 1953
Photographic print of a DNA X-ray diffraction pattern image known as Photo 51 with annotations by Raymond Gosling (1926-2015). The original image was made by Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) and her student, Gosling, at…
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DNA X-ray diffraction image known as Photo 51, Annotated by Rosalind Franklin and Aaron Klug
- Photo 51
- Circa 1953
Photographic print of a DNA X-ray diffraction pattern known as Photograph 51 with annotations by Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) and Aaron Klug (1926-2018). The original image was made by Franklin and her student Raymond…
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X-ray diffraction image of DNA in the "A" form, Annotated by Raymond Gosling
- Circa 1953
Photographic print of X-ray diffraction image of DNA in the "A" form with annotation by Raymond Gosling (1926-2015). The original image was made by Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) and her student Raymond Gosling…
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2 items
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Letter from Rosalind Franklin to Aaron Klug, June 25, 1956
- 1956-Jun-25
Letter from Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) to Aaron Klug (1926-2018) discussing scientific matters. Sent from New Hampton, New Hampshire while Franklin was attending a Gordon Research Conference in 1956.
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8 items
The Structure of Sodium Thymonucleate Fibres. II. The Cylindrically Symmetrical Patterson Function by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling
- 1953-Mar-06
Reprint from Acto Crystallographica Vol. 6, Part 8-9, September 1953.
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6 items
Letter to Rosalind Franklin from Francis Crick, June 5, 1953
- 1953-Jun-05
Includes Francis Crick's (1916-2004) comments on two papers written by Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958).
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Letter from Rosalind Franklin to Donald Caspar, March 16, 1958
- 1958-Mar-16
Letter sent from Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) to Donald Caspar (1927-2021) just one month prior to her death in April, 1958. The letter discusses Aaron Klug (1926-2018) and their recent work on the tobacco mosaic virus…
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14 items
Letters and notes on "Honest Jim" from Maurice Wilkins to James D. Watson, July 1966
- 1966-Jul-25 – 1966-Oct-06
"Honest Jim" was an informal nickname for James D. Watson (1928-) and was also the original, working title for his controversial 1968 book The Double Helix. The title reflected Watson's notoriously candid and often…
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Acetate film negative containing X-Ray diffraction images of A-form and B-form DNA
- Photo 42 and Photo 51
- Circa 1952
Rectangular piece of acetate film containing negative images of two X-ray diffraction patterns of DNA. Both images were created by Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) and Raymond Gosling (1926-2015) at King’s College London…
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X-ray diffraction image of DNA in the "A" form, Annotated by Raymond Gosling
- Circa 1953
Photographic print of X-ray diffraction image of DNA in the "A" form with annotation by Raymond Gosling (1926-2015). The original image was made by Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) and her student Raymond Gosling…
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4 items
Birkbeck College Crystallographic Laboratory 1953 Annual Report
- 1953-Jan-01 – 1954-Jan-01
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Mock D.N.A. Helix Funeral Invitation
- 1952-Jul-18
Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) and Raymond G. Gosling (1926-2015) wrote a satirical "death notice" announcing the death of DNA's helical structure. The notecard was intended as a prank for their colleague Maurice Wilkins…
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Letter from Rosalind Franklin to Aaron Klug, November 15, 1955
- 1955-Nov-15
Notes on the possibility of Rosalind Franklin joining the Agricultural and Food Research Council (ARC) in 1956.
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