Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (773 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060985089 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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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 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.
"I like it very" according to Kj. The book arrive before. I like it very much. K. M. Pollard said Franklin's real biography. Brenda Maddox does a masterful job of laying out the life story of Rosalind Franklin, the supposed "forgotten lady of DNA". This biography is far superior to the personal vendetta waged against J D Watson on Franklin's behalf by Anne Sayre (see my comments on "Rosalin. "okay book" according to L. Rosalind Franklin was a scientist whose main research included photographing and analyzing the structure of DNA. During her research, Rosalind discovered the B-form of DNA, which was an important catalyst in discovering the exact structure of DNA. She planned to conti
Maddox sees her subject as a wronged woman, but this view seems rather extreme. . Her career was cut short when she died of ovarian cancer at age 37. Drawing on interviews, published records, and a trove of personal letters to and from Rosalind, Maddox takes pains to illuminate her subject as a gifted scientist and a complex woman, but the author does not entirely dispel the darkness that clings to "the Sylvia Plath of molecular biology."Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. In this sympa