How did Rosalind Franklin die?
In the summer of 1956, while on a work related trip to the United States of America (USA) Franklin first began to suspect a health problem.[57] An operation in September of the same year revealed two tumours in her abdomen.[58] After this period of illness Franklin spent some time convalescing at the home of Crick and his wife Odile.[59] She continued to work and her group continued to produce results, seven papers in 1956 and a further six in 1957.[60] In 1957 the group was also working on the polio virus and had obtained funding from the Public Health Service of the National Institutes of Health in the USA.[61] At the end of 1957 Franklin again fell ill and was admitted to the Royal Marsden Hospital. She returned to work in January 1958 and was given a promotion to Research Associate in Biophysics.[62] She fell ill again on the 30th of March and died on April 16, 1958 in Chelsea, London,[63][64] of bronchopneumonia, secondary carcinomatosis and carcinoma of the ovary. Exposure to X-r
