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Rosalind Franklin The Dark Lady of DNA (2003)

Brenda Maddox

Could Watson and Crick have found the structure of DNA without Rosalind Franklin's data?

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Author
Brenda Maddox

Why read it

  • You will see how her data reached the Cambridge pair by a roundabout route and without her consent
  • You will weigh Maddox's judgment from her notebooks that Franklin would soon have reached the answer herself
  • You will look past the dowdy, data hoarding Rosy of The Double Helix to the scientist whose work was crucial to the discovery

Who it is for

  • A reader of science history interested in credit and fairness
  • A woman in a lab who has seen others take credit
  • Someone who has read The Double Helix and wants the other side

Contents

  1. PROLOGUE
  2. Part One
  3. 1 - Once in Royal David’s City
  4. 2 - ‘Alarmingly Clever’
  5. 3 - Once a Paulina
  6. 4 - Never Surrender
  7. 5 - Holes in Coal
  8. 6 - Woman of the Left Bank
  9. 7 - Seine v. Strand
  10. Part Two
  11. 8 - What Is Life?
  12. 9 - Joining the Circus
  13. 10 - Such a Funny Lab
  14. 11 - The Undeclared Race
  15. 12 - Eureka and Goodbye
  16. 13 - Escaping Notice
  17. Part Three
  18. 14 - The Acid Next Door
  19. 15 - O My America
  20. 16 - New Friends, New Enemies
  21. 17 - Postponed Departure
  22. 18 - Private Health, Public Health
  23. 19 - Clarity and Perfection
  24. EPILOGUE Life After Death

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