| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xix, 380 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-367) and index. |
| 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 Franklin's unpublished data and crucial photograph of DNA had already been seen by her competitors a the Cambridge University lab.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. This is a powerful story of a remarkable simpleminded, forthright and tempestuous young woman who, at the age of fifteen, decided wh was going to be a scientist, but who was airbrushed out of the greatest scientific discovery of the twentieth century. |
| Contents |
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. |
| 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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Molecular Biology -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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DNA -- history -- Great Britain.
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| ISBN |
0060184078 |
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