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By: Rogi

Rogi — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:09:15 +0000

Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling’s practical joke on Maurice Wilkins. A death notice for a helical structure for crystalline DNA (or A-DNA)

By: Ananth

Ananth — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:47:22 +0000

Rosalyn Franklin &Raymond Gosling’s death notice for helical crystalline DNA.

By: xtremevarun

xtremevarun — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:55:07 +0000

James Watson and Francis Crick at Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory had been attempting to build a model of DNA based on what was already known, and on what current research, including that at King’s, suggested. They believed that DNA was helical, and in November 1951 built a model of a three-helix molecule with the phosphates on the inside. The biophysics staff at King’s, including Franklin, were invited to Cambridge to see it. Franklin immediately noted, correctly, that such a configuration would not hold together. In response, the director of the Cavendish, Lawrence Bragg, ordered Watson and Crick to cease work on DNA and leave it to King’s. They did so, going so far as to send their model parts down to the King’s staff, though Franklin had little use for them.

During 1952 Franklin took and analyzed ever-sharper photographs of the A form but still didn’t see a helix. Her mathematical analysis, the Patterson function, though consistent with a helix in some ways, seemed to show a structural repeat of a dimension that would make a helical folding of the molecule impossible. In July, she and Gosling posted a prank notice of the “death of DNA helix (crystalline).”

By: Hitesh T S

Hitesh T S — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:42:54 +0000

“funeral card” by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling

By: Logik

Logik — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:45:39 +0000

Satirical letter indicating the death of the DNA helix model, in favour of the famous Double Helix model.
Author – Rosalind Franklin.
Also signed by Raymond Gosling

By: madhur

madhur — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:12:15 +0000

Courtesy Wiki:

This is a Reproduction of a ‘funeral card’ produced in jest by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling (see signatures in the image) in 1952 to decline the Maurice H.F. Wilkins’s and Crick-Watson’s ideas of a DNA helix as being supported by either their own X-ray data or their analysis

By: Goyal

Goyal — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:04:23 +0000

This is a reproduction of a ‘funeral card’ produced in jest by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling (see signatures in the image) in 1952 to decline the Maurice H.F. Wilkins’s and Crick-Watson’s ideas of a DNA helix as being supported by either their own X-ray data or their analysis (e.g., RF’s and RG’s). Apparently, when they wrote the card, unlike M.H.F.W and C-W, the two authors were unaware of the Chargaff’s rules.

From:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.....kecard.jpg

By: Sourya

Sourya — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:52:30 +0000

This is a joke card sent in by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling in 1952 to decline the crick watson idea of the helix. It is signed by franklin and gosling

By: AC

AC — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:50:25 +0000

Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling’s funeral card joke dismissing the double helix structure of DNA.

By: djds4rce

djds4rce — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:58:20 +0000

Rosalind Franklin sent the death notice of Helical Structure of crystalline DNA to Maurice Wilkins
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