Rosalind Franklin : the dark lady of DNA /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
2003.
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| Edition: | First Perennial edition. |
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| 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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| Item Description: | Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2002 by HarperCollins Publishers. |
| Physical Description: | xix, 380 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0060985089 9780060985080 |