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Rosalind Franklin

The Dark Lady of DNA

By Brenda Maddox

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| Paperback | 9780060985080

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In 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson received the Nobel Prize, but it was Rosalind Franklin's data and photographs of DNA that led to their discovery.

Brenda Maddox tells a powerful story of a remarkably single-minded, forthright, and tempestuous young woman who, at thContinue

In 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson received the Nobel Prize, but it was Rosalind Franklin's data and photographs of DNA that led to their discovery.

Brenda Maddox tells a powerful story of a remarkably single-minded, forthright, and tempestuous young woman who, at the age of fifteen, decided she was going to be a scientist, but who was airbrushed out of the greatest scientific discovery of the twentieth century.

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  • Lady of the lab

    Rosalind Franklin Brenda Maddox HarperCollins £20, pp304 Portraits of the joint Nobel laureates, James Watson and Francis Crick, rightly hang side by side on the walls of the National Portrait Gallery, their position as schoolboy heroes as secure as ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • In the shadow of the men

    Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA Brenda Maddox 304pp, HarperCollins, £19.99 In 1975, a biography was published of a woman scientist who had died from cancer at 37. In the research community of crystallographers, Rosalind Franklin had been high ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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