{"id":"4h3zikc","internal_id":"e29c876d-b72b-4fd2-ab8c-5cd052e2c856","links":{"img_thumbnail":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/downloads/deriv/wj9irec/thumb_large_2X?disposition=inline","html_self":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/4h3zikc"},"title":"Letter from Mary L. Petermann to Rosalind Franklin, February 25, 1958","additional_title":[],"format":["text"],"genre":["Business correspondence"],"medium":[],"extent":[],"language":["English"],"provenance":"","subject":["Petermann, Mary L.","Franklin, Rosalind, 1920-1958","Women in science","Women biochemists","Women chemists","Chemists","Biochemists","RNA"],"department":"Archives","series_arrangement":["Series V: Rosalind E. Franklin papers, 1934-1959","Sub-series 2: Correspondence, 1951-1958"],"rights":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/","rights_holder":"","digitization_funder":"","file_creator":"Auerbach, Jahna","description":"Letter from Mary L. Petermann to Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) discussing research on ribonucleoprotein (RNP) particles, microsomes, and protein synthesis. She asks Franklin if it would be okay to send some preparation to Dr. Bea Magdaff, who was studying viruses at the Boyce Thompson Institute.\n\nMary L. Petermann (1908-1975) was an American biochemist who was the first to o isolate and describe ribosomes, originally called 'Petermann's Particles.' She was the first woman to be a full professor at Cornell University’s Graduate School of Medical Sciences. In 1963, she was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Award for Cancer Research.","description_html":"<p>Letter from Mary L. Petermann to Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) discussing research on ribonucleoprotein (RNP) particles, microsomes, and protein synthesis. She asks Franklin if it would be okay to send some preparation to Dr. Bea Magdaff, who was studying viruses at the Boyce Thompson Institute.</p>\n\n<p>Mary L. Petermann (1908-1975) was an American biochemist who was the first to o isolate and describe ribosomes, originally called 'Petermann's Particles.' She was the first woman to be a full professor at Cornell University’s Graduate School of Medical Sciences. In 1963, she was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Award for Cancer Research.</p>","published_at":"2026-11-05T16:53:16Z","updated_at":"2026-11-05T16:53:16Z","creator":[{"category":"author","value":"Petermann, Mary L."},{"category":"addressee","value":"Franklin, Rosalind, 1920-1958"}],"date_of_work":[{"start":"1958-02-25","start_qualifier":"","finish":"","finish_qualifier":"","note":"","formatted":"1958-Feb-25"}],"place":[{"category":"place_of_creation","value":"New York (State)--New York"}],"inscription":[],"related_link":[],"additional_credit":[],"physical_container":{"box":"7","folder":"32","volume":"","part":"","page":"","shelfmark":"","reel":"","formatted":"Box 7, Folder 32"}}