{"id":"af5jh2j","internal_id":"f374f92e-66b5-4aee-9b88-7dbe01adb8a8","links":{"img_thumbnail":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/downloads/deriv/rwi5xlm/thumb_large_2X?disposition=inline","html_self":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/af5jh2j"},"title":"Letter from Mary L. Petermann to Rosalind Franklin, July 10, 1956","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","Nucleoproteins","Women chemists","Chemists","Biochemists","Wilkins, Maurice, 1916-2004"],"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). Petermann sends Franklin a letter she has also sent to Maurice Wilkins (1916-2004). \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). Petermann sends Franklin a letter she has also sent to Maurice Wilkins (1916-2004). </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":"2026-11-05T16:49:09Z","updated_at":"2026-11-05T16:49:09Z","creator":[{"category":"author","value":"Petermann, Mary L."},{"category":"addressee","value":"Franklin, Rosalind, 1920-1958"}],"date_of_work":[{"start":"1956-07-10","start_qualifier":"","finish":"","finish_qualifier":"","note":"","formatted":"1956-Jul-10"}],"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"}}