Rosalind Franklin - Posthumous Recognition

Posthumous Recognition

  • 1982, Iota Sigma Pi designated Franklin a National Honorary Member.
  • 1992, English Heritage placed a blue plaque on the house that Rosalind Franklin grew up in.
  • 1993, King's College London renamed the Orchard Residence at their Hampstead Campus on Kidderpore Avenue Rosalind Franklin Hall.
  • 1995, Newnham College dedicated a residence in her name and put a bust of her in its garden.
  • 1997, Birkbeck, University of London School of Crystallography opened the Rosalind Franklin Laboratory.
  • 1997, 9241 Rosfranklin, discovered in 1997, named in her honour.
  • 1998, National Portrait Gallery in London added Rosalind Franklin's portrait next to those of Francis Crick, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins.
  • 2000, King's College London opened the Franklin-Wilkins Building in honour of Dr. Franklin's and Professor Wilkins's work at the college. King's had earlier, in 1994, also named one of the Halls in Hampstead Campus residences in memory of Rosalind Franklin.
  • 2001, The American National Cancer Institute established the Rosalind E. Franklin Award for Women in Science.
  • 2003, the Royal Society established the Rosalind Franklin Award, for an outstanding contribution to any area of natural science, engineering or technology.
  • 2004, Finch University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School, located in North Chicago, Illinois, changed its name to the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science.
  • 2004, University of Groningen in the Netherlands started the Rosalind Franklin Fellowships to promote the hiring of young, promising, female researchers.
  • 2005, the wording on the DNA sculpture (which was donated by James Watson) outside Clare College, Cambridge's Thirkill Court is a) on the base: i) "These strands unravel during cell reproduction. Genes are encoded in the sequence of bases." and ii) "The double helix model was supported by the work of Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins.", as well as b) on the helices: i) "The structure of DNA was discovered in 1953 by Francis Crick and James Watson while Watson lived here at Clare." and ii) "The molecule of DNA has two helical strands that are linked by base pairs Adenine – Thymine or Guanine – Cytosine."
  • 2008, Columbia University awarded an Honorary Horwitz Prize to Rosalind Franklin, Ph.D., posthumously, "for her seminal contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA".
  • 2012, Rosalind Franklin honored as namesake of Rosalind, an online project teaching programming via molecular biology.

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