Following her visit to the United States in 1954, Franklin collaborated with Barry Commoner (at Washington University in St. Louis), on a study of a protein he called B8, which was similar to the protein found in some viruses. She compared this with material obtained from Alexander Rich (then at the National Institutes of Health) and was so bothered by the discrepancies that she sent Rich a telegram asking him to verify his data. His response was important to the final version of the Franklin-Commoner article.
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