What was the name of the fellowship that funded Rosalind Franklin's work at King's College?

Rosalind Franklin’s work at King’s College London was funded by a Turner and Newall Fellowship. She received the three-year fellowship in 1950 and began at King’s in January 1951 in John Randall’s Medical Research Council Biophysics Unit.

Turner and Newall was a major British industrial company whose interests included asbestos and building materials. Its fellowship supported scientific research, allowing Franklin to bring her advanced X-ray crystallography experience back to Britain after several productive years in Paris studying carbon and coal.

Franklin was initially expected to study proteins and lipids in solution, including structural changes caused by heating or dehydration. Randall redirected her toward DNA fibres before she began, and she became the main experimental specialist on that project. Working with Raymond Gosling, she obtained exceptionally informative diffraction images, including Photograph 51.

The fellowship is sometimes confused with a Royal Society fellowship or a scholarship such as Rhodes. Those were different awards. Turner and Newall funded Franklin’s appointment; it did not itself name her scientific discovery or confer a university degree.