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structure, appeared in the same issue of Nature that contained the article by Watson and Crick. 

The atmosphere at King's College affected Franklin and in 1953, she became a Turner-Newall Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London where she headed her own research group. A condition of her leaving King's College was that she not continue work on DNA. She began researching viruses, specifically the tobacco mosaic virus. She published seventeen papers during this time. In a lecture given by Sir Aaron Klug, following her death, she was described as single minded, determined, but with a sense of fun.

While on a visit to the United States in 1945, Franklin experienced pain that was later diagnosed as ovarian cancer. She fought back with three operations and experimental chemotherapy. Franklin died April 16, 1958, at age 37. Two month later, two of her models of virus molecules were shown at the World's Fair in Brussels.

In 1962, Watson and Crick received a Nobel Prize for their work on DNA. The Nobel is not awarded posthumously.

The Department of Crystallography at Birkbeck College recently built a new laboratory, the Franklin Laboratory.

Honors and Awards

Turner-Newall Research Fellowship, 1951-1958

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