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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maddox, Brenda (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2003.
Edition:First Perennial edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Once in Royal David's City
  • 'Alarmingly clever'
  • Once a Paulina
  • Never surrender
  • Holes in coal
  • Woman of the Left Bank
  • Seine volume 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.