What was the name of Rosalind Franklin's undergraduate college at Cambridge University?

Rosalind Franklin attended Newnham College at Cambridge University. She entered the college in 1938 to study chemistry as part of the Natural Sciences Tripos, Cambridge’s broad undergraduate science course.

Newnham was founded in 1871 as one of Cambridge’s colleges for women. At the time Franklin studied there, women could attend lectures and complete demanding examinations, but Cambridge did not yet award them full titular degrees. Franklin received a degree equivalent for employment purposes after her 1941 examinations; women graduates were later granted Cambridge BA and MA titles retroactively.

After Cambridge, Franklin worked on the structure of coal and carbon materials before moving into X-ray crystallography in Paris. Her expertise eventually led John Randall to recruit her to King’s College London, where she produced crucial X-ray evidence about DNA. A common mix-up is King’s College: that was her later workplace, not her undergraduate college. Franklin also later held a research fellowship associated with Newnham.