13 Facts About Raymond Gosling

Raymond Gosling was born in 1926 and attended school in Wembley.

Raymond Gosling studied physics at University College London from 1944 to 1947 and became a hospital physicist at the King's Fund and Middlesex Hospital between 1947 and 1949 before joining King's College London as a research student, from which he eventually received his PhD.

When he arrived at King's College London, Raymond Gosling was directed by Sir John Randall to work on the problem of the structure of DNA.

Raymond Gosling made the first x-ray diffraction image of crystallized DNA.

In 1952 Raymond Gosling made the best X-ray diffraction image of DNA known as Photo 51.

Raymond Gosling was the co-author with Franklin of one of the three DNA double helix papers published in Nature in April 1953.

Raymond Gosling was not recognized by the Nobel Committee and Franklin had died four years before.

When Franklin left King's College, Raymond Gosling was reassigned back to work with Wilkins, with whom he formally completed his thesis work.

Raymond Gosling briefly remained at King's College following the completion of his thesis in 1954, but the 1953 work on DNA structure was not, at the time, viewed with the importance it now has achieved, and following his Ph.

Raymond Gosling went on to lecture in physics at Queen's College, University of St Andrews in Scotland, and then found a long-term position at the University of the West Indies.

Raymond Gosling returned to the UK in 1967 and became Lecturer and Reader at Guy's Hospital Medical School, and Professor and Emeritus Professor in Physics Applied to Medicine from 1984.

Raymond Gosling served on numerous committees of the University of London, notably relating to radiological science, and retained an active professional involvement in medical physics almost to the end of his life.

Raymond Gosling died at the age of 88 on 18 May 2015.