Rosalind Franklin (47 page)

PERSONALITY
27, 81; abruptness 85, 256, 306; anger 173—4, 194; claustrophobia 71, 79, 95; confrontational manner xx, 72—3, 92—3, 95, 146, 151; conversational awkwardness 129, 255, 256—7, 287; difficult character 18, 28, 135, 255, 267, 306; dual nature of 139—40, 151, 277; emotional immaturity 33, 69, 80, 96—7, 228, 261; fun-loving 17—18, 277, 280, 322; honesty 64; hostile indifference 28—9; innocence 34; jealousy 103; kindness 151, 174, 223; melancholy 159; modesty 309; oversensitivity 319; puritanism 96, 246, 256; reserve 34, 37, 49, 64, 85, 113, 126, 256, 288, 301; self-confidence 85, 135; self-denial 71, 84, 91, 102, 139; shyness 256, 288

AS SCIENTIST
xx, 308—9, 318—20, 322; academic status 235—6, 256—7, 263—4, 302; attitude to model-building 161, 184; carbon/graphite research 87—9, 105, 109—10, 115, 222, 243, 308; coal research 77—9, 83—4, 87, 180, 231, 237, 256, 318; collaborators 249—50, 254, 258; at conferences 147—9, 162—4, 233, 238, 267—8, 271, 273—4, 297, 304; Crick's correspondence with 223—4; Crick-Watson's debt to 196–7, 199, 210, 212, 223, 241, 247, 309, 313, 315–17, 320–1, 323, 346n, 350n; critique of DNA models 164—5, 200, 223; delays publication of results 178—9; DNA research xix-xx, 130, 137—8, 143—5, 153—5, 157, 161— 3, 168—71, 175—6, 177—9, 183—5, 188, 190—I, 195—8, 201—2, 211, 221, 222, 308—9, 326; doctorate in physical chemistry 82, 83; early interest in science 23; as experimentalist 95, 143— 4, 217, 255, 318; King's leaving seminar 192; lack of imagination/insight 202, 249, 318—19, 322; lectures 174, 222, 234, 237, 241, 242, 246; on meaning of science 60—I; ‘molecular sieves' hypothesis 83—4; Photograph 51 of ‘B' form DNA 178, 192, 196—8, 201, 212, 247, 316; polio virus research 297, 298—9, 303—4, 306, 309; published papers 83, 100, 105—6, 110, 130—I, 145, 168, 184, 187, 195, 199, 205—6, 208, 210—II, 222, 223, 245, 250, 267, 269, 292, 295—6, 303, 307– 8, 327; and radiation risk 101, 144, 320; reputation xx, 79, 104, 109, 131, 179, 243, 247, 267, 274, 308—9, 321– 2, 327; research post in Physical Chemistry Laboratory 70, 72, 73—4, 77; RNA research 222; sixth-form studies 32 —3, 41; technical expertise 101, 130, 143—4, 160,
168,
175, 221; TMV model 275, 293—5, 300, 309, 322; TMV (tobacco mosaic virus) research 229, 231, 234, 241, 246, 249, 251—5, 258—61, 269—70, 285, 303, 308– 9, 318; university studies 46—8, 53—7, 63, 68; Virus Research Project at Birkbeck 254—7, 262, 263, 265, 267, 269, 290, 293, 296, 304—5, 309, 324

Franklin, Sarah (née Israel) 3

Franklin, Ursula (RF's cousin) 26, 27, 34, 62, 71, 97, 140, 279, 302

Franklin family 3—7, 271, 320

Franklin Family and Collaterals, The
(A.E. Franklin) 6

Fraser, Bruce 157, 161 —2, 208—9, 351n

Fraser, Mary 157, 162

Freud, Sigmund 38

Friedlander, Marianne 137, 172

Frisch, Otto 83

Furberg, Sven 136, 143, 149, 162, 226

‘Future of Palestine, The' (Samuel) 7—8

 

Gale, Arthur 210

Galton, David 300

Gamow, George 243, 274

Garrod, Dorothy 48

Gaulle, Charles de 65, 66, 92, 99

General Electric Company 131, 137

genetics 119—31, 142; chromosomes 56, 119, 123; copying mechanism xix, 203—4, 210, 212; protein 119—20, 136; structure of gene 142; X-ray crystallography and 158;
see also
DNA

Geneva 297

George V, King 34

George VI, King 42, 170; coronation of 35—7

German/Jewish Refugee Committee 38

Ginoza, Willam 276, 277

Glaeser, Rachel 102—3, 110

Glynn, Jenifer (neée Franklin, RF's sister) 80, 82; birth 21; childhood 39, 40, 54; education 43; holiday with RF 297—8; marriage 107; on RF's attitude to Judaism 61; on RF's personality 172; on RF's relations with Mering 97fn; and Rosalind Franklin Bequest 321fn; visits RF 75, 94; work 271

Gollancz, Livia (RF's cousin) 26

Goodfield, June 283

Gordon Research Conferences 152; on coal 233, 238; on nucleic acid 270, 271, 274—5

Gosling, Raymond 137, 225; feelings for RF 321; Franklin-Gosling
Nature
papers 208, 210—12, 222; and Franklin-Wilkins feud 140, 146, 155—6; reaction to Cavendish's victory 209; on RF 129, 165; as RF's assistant 129, 143—4, 154, 168—70, 175, 177, 178, 183—5, 195, 206, 325; and RF's departure from King's 187; on RF's reaction to Crick-Watson model 211; shows DNA Photo 51 to

Gosling, Raymond —
cont.
Wilkins 196, 316; thesis supervised by RF 155, 187, 196, 213, 221; work with Wilkins 114, 129; X-ray pictures of DNA 130

Grdenic, Drago 180, 267

Grenoble 88

Griffith, Frederick 121

Griffiths, Ada (Nannie) 16–17, 26, 54, 62, 82, 107, 231, 244, 300, 301, 318

 

Hahn, Otto 83

Haldane, J.B.S. 45, 47, 225

Hanjal-Konyi, Charlotte,
see
Franklin, C.

Hanson, Jean 126, 133

Harker, David 241, 317

Hartog, Roger 46

Harvard University 134, 262, 311, 316

Harvard University Press 311, 312

Heller, Louise 114, 129, 134, 140, 144, 172

Hemily, Marion 109

Hemily, Philip 109, 147

Hess, Rudolf 67

Hewish, Antony 325

Himsworth, Harold 303

Hitler, Adolf 38, 42, 50, 51, 54

Hodgkin, Dorothy 147, 177; and Bernal 218, 220; biography of 160; condones RF's approach 178—9; Nobel prize 324–5; queen of Patterson function 169; and RF's DNA photographs 175

Holmes, Kenneth 320, 324; papers 267, 269, 292, 295—6; relations with RF 255, 305, 307, 321; on RF's personality 255, 256; work with RF 254—5

Holmes, Mary (nee Scurby) 255, 305

Holst, Gustav 30

Home Office 38, 50, 73, 81

Horizon
(BBC TV) 322

Housman, Lawrence 49

‘How to Live with a Golden Helix' (Crick) 318—19

Hungary 289

 

Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) 108, 110

Institut Pasteur, Paris 224

Institute of Physics 267

International Congress of Crystallography 147, 237

International Union of Crystallography symposium 268

International X-ray Tables
175

‘Interpretation of Diffuse X-ray Diagrams of Carbon' (RF) 105

isomorphous replacement technique 259, 270, 295

Israel 226—9 Italy 106, 110, 297

Ivanhoe
(Scott) 10, 173

 

Jacob, Francois 147, 224, 250

Jacobson, Dan 266, 301

Janeway, Elizabeth 314

Jerusalem 7

Jewish Chronicle
38

Jewish Relief Act (1858) 331

Jews: Anglo-Jewry 8—9, 31, 271, 320; anti-semitism 8—11, 49, 50; cancer amongst 320, 35m; European 38, 50, 81; internment 63; Israeli orthodox 227; and Palestine 7—8; refugees 38, 50—1; RF's family background 3—7, 12

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore 273

Johnson, Samuel 133

Joseph, Catherine (RF's second cousin) 26, 52, 260

Journal of Experimental Medicine
121

Judson, Horace Freeland 202, 318

Julius, Anthony 11

 

Kalckar, Herman 142

Kegan Paul 4

Kendrew, John 149, 164, 186, 205, 268, 303

Kerlogue, Jean (nee Kerslake) 287; family of 260; holidays with RF 79—80, 84; relations with men 34, 80; on RF's attitude to men 84—5; schooldays 28, 40; social life 34, 64; visits RF 26—7, 94, 260; war work 70

Keynes, John Maynard 91

Keyser's bank 4, 13, 15, 18, 38, 81, 128, 271

Keyser Ullmann 271

Khrushchev, Nikita 289

King, Mrs 239

King's College London 106, 108, 112, 125, 181; Biophysics Unit xix, 12, 125, 128–36, 149, 152–6, 157, 160–2, 166, 187, 209; DNA colloquium 162–4; DNA research 114, 129–30, 141, 157, 159, 161–2, 165, 176–7, 181, 188, 196, 207–8, 210, 314, 316–17, 324; Franklin-Wilkins Building 323; Jews in 172–3; MRC committee visit 187–8, 198–9; religious foundation 127; research at ill; RF's appointment 110–11, 113; RF's departure 183, 187, 192, 206, 232; RF joins 126–7, 137–8; scientific tradition 127; Wheatstone Physics Laboratory 181 ; women in 127-8, 133-4

Kingston-upon-Thames 77, 80

Kinsey Report 101

Klug, Aaron 268, 310, 312, 321; academic status 265, 266; personality 254; autobiography 249; background 250; beneficiary under RF's will 301, 326, 351n; close relations with RF 261, 266–7, 273; collaboration with RF 249–50, 254–5, 262, 267, 290, 292, 295, 299, 303–4; defence of RF 325–6; head of Virus Research Project 324; Nobel prize 249, 325; Nuffield funding 263; on RF's DNA work 190, 201–2, 249;on RF's personality 322; on RF's Photo 51 of DNA 340n; on RF's relations with Crick 254; scientific career 326

Klug, Liebe 250, 261

Kohlberg, Lawrence 317

Kranjc, Katarina 180

 

Laboratoire Central des Services Chimiques de l'Etat 87–8, 100, 101, 109–10

Labour Monthly
313

Lederberg, Joshua 282

Lederberg, Seymour 282

Lenton, Stan 257

Lindores School for Young Ladies, Bexhill 22

Linken, Dr 271, 284, 285

Lipson, Henry: Beevers-Lipson strips 169, 222

Little family 239

Liverpool 4

Livingstone, Mair 261, 283, 284, 297, 301

Lloyd George, David 7, 10

Lockwood, John F. 219, 298

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 298

Lonsdale, Kathleen 82, 175

Los Angeles, UCLA 245–6, 276

Lowe, Rabbi, of Prague 6

Lowy, Jack 172

Lucky Jim
(Amis) 315

Luria, Salvador 142

Luzzati, Denise 103, 110, 231, 261

Luzzati, Vittorio 105, 138, 256, 302; attends RF's funeral 307; at Labo Central 109, 168; relations with RF 95, 147; RF holidays with 110, iii, 112; RF visits 231, 291

Luzzati family 297–8

Lyons 104

 

McCarty, Maclyn 122

Mackay, Alan 267

MacLeod, Colin 122

Madrid 268

Maire, Jacques 101

Manchester Grammar School 31

Man's World, Women's Place
(Janeway) 314

Marine Biological Laboratory, Wood's Hole 239, 275

Martin, Celia 85

Mason, John 221

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 239

Mathieu, Marcel 85, 87–8, 110

Mathieu-Sicand, Agnes 103

Maurice, Major-Gen. Sir Frederick 20, 41 145

Maurice, Frederick Denison 20

Maxwell, James Clerk 46, 127

‘Mechanism of Crystallite Growth in Carbons' (RF) 222

Medical Research Council 132, 141, 149, 165, 191; biophysics committee 176; funding 293, 324; report on King's 187–8, 198–9, 207

Meitner, Lise 83

Mendel, Gregor 119

Mercers' Company 25, 31

Merchant of Venice, The
(Shakespeare) 9, 10

Merck-National Research Council 158

Mering, Jacques: joint conference paper with RF 237; at Labo Central 87–8, 92, 222; London visits 85, 267; relations with RF 85, 96–7, 102–3, 147, 168, 286–7, 306; and RF's published papers 105, 110, 145, 168; attitude to RF 105, 168

M'Ewen, Marjorie 133, 318

Miescher, Friedrich 120

Meitner, Lise 327

Milliband, Ralph 261

Mirsky, Alfred 327

Mitchison, Naomi 194

‘Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate' (Franklin and Gosling) 210

‘Molecular Structure of Deoxypentose Nucleic Aids' (Wilkins, Stokes and Wilson) 210

Molecules of Emotion
(Pert) 314

Montagu, Samuel 4

Montefiore, Harold 98

Montefiore, Sir Moses 5

Montefiore, Myrtle 97

Montefiore, Rosemary 280

Morrison, Herbert 149

Mosley, Oswald 38

Mould, Derek 16

Moulder, Prof. J.W. 293

Mountbatten, Lord Louis 72, 219

 

Nance, Margaret 106, 150, 176

Naples 141–3

Nasser, Gamal Abdel 289

Nation, The
313

National Advisory Allergy and Infectious Diseases Council (US) 296

National Carbon Research Laboratories (US) 235

National Coal Board 233, 248, 256

National Film Theatre 260

National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis 177

National Portrait Gallery 322

Nature
108, 209, 254; Astbury's DNA paper 120; Crick-Watson papers xix, 207, 210, 212, 224; Franklin-Commoner paper 245, 253; Franklin-Gosling papers 208, 210–12, 222, 234; Franklin-Watt paper on oxidation in carbon 292; Klug's articles on RF 325–6; review of
The Double Helix
313; trio of papers on DNA xix, 207, 210–12; Pauling-Corey contributions 187, 200; RF's letter to 106; RF's obituary xx, 308, 309; RF's papers 250–3, 269–70

Nature of the Chemical Bond
(Pauling) 147

Neuner, Irene (nee Franklin, RF's cousin) 69, 78, 79, 80, 226, 227, 228

New Statesman
99, 135, 218, 315, 322

New West End Synagogue, Bayswater 4, 5, 14

New York 241, 273

New York Times
90, 308

Newnham College, Cambridge 39–40, 44–6, 48–9, 53–5, 58, 66, 68, 145, 321fn, 322

Newton, Isaac 46

Nicolson, Harold 10

Nixon, Prof. 285

Nobel prize xx, 32, 47, 70, 83, 122, 134, 192, 249, 254, 266, 311, 323–5, 326–7

Norland Place school 15–16

Norrish, R.G.W. 70, 71, 72, 73, 76, 77, 82

North, Anthony and Margaret 209

Norway 37, 54

Notting Hill 13–14

Noyes, Alfred 45

Nuffield Foundation 219

 

Oberlin, Michel 101 , 103

Olby, Robert 178

‘On the influence of bonding electrons on the scattering of X-rays by carbon' (RF) 106

Ordnance Ministry, France 87, 88

Orgel, Leslie 241, 253