Letter from Rosalind Franklin to Robley Williams

Letter from Rosalind Franklin to Robley Williams

Contributor(s):
Churchill Archives Centre. The Papers of Rosalind Franklin
Williams, Robley
University of California, Berkeley
Franklin, Rosalind
Publication:
Produced: 14 September 1955
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Tobacco Mosaic Virus
RNA
X-Ray Diffraction
Genre(s):
Archival Materials
Letters (correspondence)
Abstract:
Robley Williams was one of many virus researchers that Franklin visited during her 1954 trip to the United States. He had written to her about her recent article on the probable structural configuration of TMV, as revealed by x-ray diffraction studies, and mused about the differences between her data and those found by he and his colleagues via different methods; they continued to brainstorm about this in a series of letters. In 1955, Williams and Fraenkel-Conrat found that they could break TMV into RNA and protein components, then reconstitute them into a new virus, some of which was infective. In this letter, Franklin offered to take x-ray diffraction photos of the reconstituted TMV.
Copyright:
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Extent:
1 pages
NLM Unique ID:
101584586X107 (See in Profiles in Science)
Profiles in Science ID:
KRBBHH
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584586X107
Archival Collection:
The Rosalind Franklin Papers (Profiles in Science)