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Rosalind Franklin : the dark lady of DNA / Brenda Maddox.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2003Description: xix, 380 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0060985089
  • 9780060985080
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Contents:
Once in Royal David's City -- 'Alarmingly clever' -- Once a Paulina -- Never surrender -- Holes in coal -- Woman of the Left Bank -- Seine v. Strand -- What is life? -- Joining the circus -- Such a funny lab -- Undeclared race -- Eureka and goodbye -- Escaping notice -- Acid next door -- O my America -- New friends, new enemies -- Postponed departure -- Private health, public health -- Clarity and perfection -- Epilogue; life after death.
Summary: 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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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2002 by HarperCollins Publishers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Once in Royal David's City -- 'Alarmingly clever' -- Once a Paulina -- Never surrender -- Holes in coal -- Woman of the Left Bank -- Seine v. Strand -- What is life? -- Joining the circus -- Such a funny lab -- Undeclared race -- Eureka and goodbye -- Escaping notice -- Acid next door -- O my America -- New friends, new enemies -- Postponed departure -- Private health, public health -- Clarity and perfection -- Epilogue; life after death.

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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