Tomb of Rosalind Franklin is a Grade II listed building in the Brent local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 2017. Tomb.
Tomb of Rosalind Franklin
- WRENN ID
- under-span-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brent
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 2017
- Type
- Tomb
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tomb of Rosalind Franklin, built in 1958, is located in the Willesden United Synagogue Jewish Cemetery. It can be found within the Franklin family enclosure in the north-eastern part of the cemetery, approximately 38 meters east of the funerary prayer hall complex.
The tomb is made of grey-veined white marble and features a horizontal rectangular tablet in two stages. The tablet has an incised inscription that reads: ‘IN MEMORY OF / ROSALIND ELSIE FRANKLIN / [Hebrew lettering here represents the Hebrew name of the deceased] / DEARLY LOVED ELDER DAUGHTER OF / ELLIS AND MURIEL FRANKLIN / 25TH JULY 1920 – 16TH APRIL 1958 / SCIENTIST / HER RESEARCH AND DISCOVERIES ON / VIRUSES REMAIN OF LASTING BENEFIT / TO MANKIND / [Hebrew lettering here represents an abbreviation of 1 Samuel, 25:29, ‘May his/her soul be bound up in the bond of eternal life’ (this inscription is frequently found on Jewish tombstones)].
Notably, the inscription does not mention her significant contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA, as the importance of that discovery was not widely recognized at the time of her death.
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