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:
- This item may be under copyright protection; contact the copyright owner for permission before re-use.
- 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)