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RECORD NUMBER: 15 OF 21Main Title | Rosalind Franklin : the dark lady of DNA / | |||||||||||
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Author | Maddox, Brenda. | |||||||||||
Publisher | Perennial/HarperCollins, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 2003 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 754887912 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 0060985089; 9780060985080 | |||||||||||
Subjects | Women molecular biologists--Great Britain--Biography ; DNA--History | |||||||||||
Additional Subjects | Franklin, Rosalind,--1920-1958 | |||||||||||
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Collation | xix, 380 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-367) and index. |
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Contents Notes | 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. 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. |