Rosalind Franklin’s biorhythm

Chemist · Born July 25, 1920

Rosalind Franklin was a British chemist and a pioneer of X-ray crystallography. Her images were crucial for working out the structure of DNA.

The big day: April 25, 1953

Publication in Nature. This issue of the journal Nature carried her article with Raymond Gosling – alongside Watson and Crick’s famous paper on the double helix.

Biorhythm on April 25, 1953

Age 32 · day 11,962 of life

Physical
+52 %
↗ rising
Emotional
+97 %
↗ rising
Intellectual
+10 %
⚠ Critical day

On this day all three curves were positive – strongest: Emotional at +97 %.

Intellectual: the curve crossed the zero line on this day – a turning point in biorhythm theory.

Ten days before and after the event

We15Th16Fr17Sa18Su19Mo20Tu21We22Th23Fr24Sa25Su26Mo27Tu28We29Th30Fr1Sa2Su3Mo4Tu5April 19, 1953: Critical day (Emotional)April 23, 1953: Critical day (Physical)April 25, 1953: Critical day (Intellectual)May 3, 1953: Critical day (Emotional)May 4, 1953: Critical day (Physical)

The highlighted day is April 25, 1953.

To be clear: these days were deliberately chosen – they are moments of success on which the curves were favourable. It is a fun bit of detective work, not scientific proof. Everyone also achieves great things on “weak” biorhythm days.