| Description |
xix, 380 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: LIST OP ILLUSTRATIONS ix -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xiii -- PROLOGUE xvii -- -- -- Part One -- -- 1 Once in Royal David's City 3 -- 2 'Alarmingly Clever' 13 -- 3 Once a Paulina 25 -- 4 Never Surrender 43 -- 5 Holes in Coal 70 -- 6 Woman of the Left Bank 87 -- 7 Seine v. Strand Io8 -- -- -- Part Two -- -- 8 What Is Life? I19 -- 9 Joining the Circus I25 -- 10 Such a Funny Lab 141 -- 11 The Undeclared Race I68 -- 12 Eureka and Goodbye I90 -- 13 Escaping Notice 207 -- -- -- -- -- Part Three -- -- 14 The Acid Next Door 217 -- 15 0 My America 233 -- 16 New Friends, New Enemies 249 -- 17 Postponed Departure 271 -- 18 Private Health, Public Health 286 -- 19 Clarity and Perfection 295 -- -- -- EPILOGUE: LIFE AFTER DEATH 3II -- -- -- NOTES 329 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY 353 -- INDEX 368 |
| Summary |
"In March 1953 Maurice Wilkins of King's College London announced the departure of his obstructive colleague, Rosalind Franklin to rival Cavendish Laboratory scientist, Francis Crick." "But it was too late. Franklin's unpublished data and crucial photograph of DNA had already been seen by her competitors at the Cambridge University lab. With the aid of these, plus their own knowledge, Watson and Crick discovered the structure of the molecule that genes are composed of - DNA, the secret of life. Five years later, after more brilliant research under Bernal at Birkbeck College, at the age of thirty-seven, Rosalind died of ovarian cancer. In 1962 Wilkins, Crick and Watson were awarded the Nobel prize for their elucidation of DNA's structure. Franklin's part was forgotten until she was caricatured in Watson's book The Double Helix." |
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"In this biography Brenda Maddox has been given unique access to Rosalind's personal correspondence and has interviewed all the principal scientists involved, including Crick, Watson and Wilkins."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-367) and index |
| Subject |
Franklin, Rosalind, 1920-1958.
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Women molecular biologists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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DNA -- Research -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2002068898 |
| ISBN |
0060184078 |
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