That other people got the credit for figuring it out when they couldn’t have done it without her…I really felt for her. She was so close to figuring it out herself, and it was sad that her work was passed along without her knowledge. Things really seemed to start changing at that time, and it was interesting to see how her work played such a huge role in figuring out the mysteries of DNA. It’s a pretty balanced book- we learn about who she was as a person, but we also learn a lot about the scientific developments of the time. I thought that Maddox did a great job at showing why she didn’t get the recognition she deserved. after World War 2, in a male-dominated field. It’s not surprising, because she was working in the U.K. She was determined and hard-working and pretty successful, and it’s sad that she didn’t get more recognition. It was clear she loved science, and that it was what she wanted to do. I don’t know if it’s because she never came up (it was high school biology, after all), or if it’s because she did, and I just don’t remember anything. I mean, I (very vaguely) remember Crick and Watson, and Wilkins seems sort of familiar, but Franklin doesn’t ring a bell at all. But I’m glad I picked up this biography because I really had no idea that she had a role in figuring out the whole DNA thing.
It’s been a really long time since I took biology, so I don’t remember much of anything. This is a powerful story, told by one of the finest biographers, 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. In this full and balanced biography, Brenda Maddox has been given unique access to Franklin’s personal correspondence and has interviewed all the principal scientists involved, including Crick, Watson and Wilkins. Franklin’s part was forgotten until she was caricatured in Watson’s book The Double Helix. In 1962, Wilkins, Crick and Watson were awarded the Nobel Prize for their elucidation of DNA’s structure. Bernal at Birkbeck College, Rosalind died of ovarian cancer. Five years later, at the age of thirty-seven, after more brilliant research under J.
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.
Franklin’s unpublished data and crucial photograph of DNA had already been seen by her competitors at the Cambridge University lab. 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. Genre: Adult Non-Fiction/Biography/Science Where I Got It: I borrowed the hardcover from the library Published October 2002 by Harper|400 pages
Book: Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady Of DNA by Brenda Maddox
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