What was the name of the graduate student who worked with Rosalind Franklin on DNA?

The graduate student who worked with Rosalind Franklin on DNA was Raymond Gosling. He joined King’s College London as a physics research student and initially worked with Maurice Wilkins before being assigned to Franklin.

Gosling helped Franklin develop and carry out X-ray diffraction experiments on DNA fibres. Their work produced exceptionally clear images of DNA, including Photo 51, a famous B-DNA diffraction photograph taken by Gosling on 2 May 1952. The cross-shaped pattern indicated a helical structure.

Franklin and Gosling published DNA research together in the three papers that appeared in Nature in April 1953. Gosling later completed his PhD under the supervision of Franklin and Wilkins. Francis Crick was not Franklin’s graduate student; he was a researcher at the Cavendish Laboratory with James Watson. John Randall directed the King’s College biophysics unit, while Maurice Wilkins was another senior researcher involved in the DNA project.