Raymond Gosling

Raymond George Gosling (15 July 1926 – 18 May 2015) was a British scientist. While a PhD student at King's College, London he worked under the supervision of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin. The crystallographic experiments of Franklin and Gosling, together with others by Wilkins, produced data that helped James Watson and Francis Crick to infer the structure of DNA.

Raymond Gosling
Gosling in 2003
Born(1926-07-15)15 July 1926
Wembley, London, England
Died18 May 2015(2015-05-18) (aged 88)
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity College London
King's College London (PhD)
Known forDNA
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsKing's College London
ThesisX-ray diffraction studies of Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid (1954)
Doctoral advisorMaurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin
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