by Brenda Maddox - £10.99 Harper Collins Publishers (2003)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9780006552116 | ISBN 10: 0006552110
Although Rosalind Franklin took the crucial photograph of DNA revealing its double helix structure, her work was overlooked when, four years after her death, three men – Maurice Wilkins of King's College London, Francis Crick of the Cavendish Laboratory and James Watson of Cambridge – were awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of DNA.
In this compelling biography of Franklin, Brenda Maddox tells the story of a remarkably single-minded, forthright and tempestuous young woman, who at the age of fifteen decided she wanted to be a scientist, but who was airbrushed out of the greatest scientific discovery of the twentieth century.
"A most moving and important biography, as well as an impressive account of a major event in the history of science"
(Lewis Wolpert, 'Literary Review')
"This magnificent biography gives a gripping yet nuanced account that resists the stock story-line of Franklin as the wronged heroine. What really happened is far more intriguing."
(Gail Vines, Independent)
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