Everything about Raymond Gosling totally explained
Raymond Gosling (born
1926) is a distinguished scientist who worked with both
Maurice Wilkins and
Rosalind Franklin at
King's College London in deducing the structure of
DNA, under the direction of Sir John Randall.
Early years
He was born in 1926 and attended school in Wembley. He studied physics at
University College London from 1944 to 1947 and became a hospital physicist at the King’s Fund and Middlesex Hospital between 1947 and 1949 before joining
King's College London as a research student.
Work at King's and DNA
At
King’s College London, Gosling worked on X-ray diffraction with Maurice Wilkins, analyzing samples of DNA which they prepared by hydrating and drawing out into thin filaments and photographing in a hydrogen atmosphere.
Gosling was then assigned to Rosalind Franklin when she joined King’s College London in 1951. Together they produced the first X-ray diffraction photographs of the "form B" paracrystalline arrays of highly hydrated DNA. She was his academic supervisor. During the next two years, the pair worked closely together to perfect the technique of x-ray diffraction photography of DNA and obtained at the time the sharpest diffraction images of
DNA. This work led directly to the 1962
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine being awarded to
Francis Crick,
James D. Watson and
Maurice Wilkins. Gosling was the co-author with Franklin of one of the three papers published in "Nature" in April 1953.
Gosling briefly remained at King’s College London following the completion of his thesis in 1954 before lecturing in physics at Queen’s College,
University of St Andrews, and at the
University of the West Indies
Gosling has served on numerous committees of the
University of London, notably relating to radiological science, and still retains an active professional involvement in
medical physics.
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