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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

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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...more

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Published September 30th 2003 by Harper Perennial (first published June 17th 2002)

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Nov 21, 2008 Nicole rated it 5 of 5 stars

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A balanced and complete review of the life of a woman who has been ignored, maligned, or offered sycophant worship for her role in the early nucleic acid research. Only a few of her closest coworkers seem to have known enough about her to offer clear insight and to have kept to that image in subsequent years until this biography.
The message of the book is that she was mistreated and it is fair that Rosalind Franklin be adequately acknowledged for her contributions. All of her work not just the...more A balanced and complete review of the life of a woman who has been ignored, maligned, or offered sycophant worship for her role in the early nucleic acid research. Only a few of her closest coworkers seem to have known enough about her to offer clear insight and to have kept to that image in subsequent years until this biography.
The message of the book is that she was mistreated and it is fair that Rosalind Franklin be adequately acknowledged for her contributions. All of her work not just the two years at Kings. Further, the author suggests that placing her on a pedestal as representing all women suffering unfair employment in the sciences is not helping women still struggling with unequal treatment. Recognition and fair treatment is desirable but not excessive adulation.
Maddox qualifies the imbalanced biographic work previously published. Watson's somewhat misogynistic self justification in his book "The Double Helix"and Sayre's overly partial view in "Rosalind Franklin & DNA" written to counter Watson's book.

Since I am in the field of molecular biology I have seen the results of unfair bias and the strangled careers women experience even in the current era. So much subtle discouragment is still present in actions despite the training and management seminars. We still need time to find a balance so there is greater evenness in opportunities.
I can remember thinking when reading "The Double Helix" that this is how it still is to be a women in the labs. This meant I was automatically discounting the personal commentary about Rosalind because I'd already heard similar or worse about my coworkers or myself. In overhearing the men discuss their blond, statuesque co-conference attendee in terms of being a 'Science Barbie' and less mentionable terms with implications of her purpose being glass ware adornment not the papers she authored. Similarly the women who did not dress to suit where hairy legged female gorillas. This was not something I ever encountered in discussions of male colleagues by either sex. So when Watson disparaged Rosalind I automatically adjusted the content to ignore the belittlement and came away with the simple message that he stole another persons work. That he felt justified at the time because he was in competition with Pauling to get the work first and none of the Kings people were willing to rush things.
I will not belittle the leap the Cavendish team made to see the entire related form and function. In fact, as a group, they did what Kekule did in envisioning the carbon ring, see the gestalt.
The prior work of Avery and Chargaff is, now, well noted in books as being the information basis built on but the Cavendish team did put together the pieces synergistically. They were assembling all the pieces from different sources but the key information of Rosalind's x-ray images was not the Cavendish teams to take or use with out including the creator of the data she was in the process of publishing. No more than that. The work should be acknowledged without personal commentary.
I think this book should be printed with "The Double Helix" as an 'Ace Double', back to back but inverted so each has a cover and title page. This way Maddox can show Rosalind's entire body of work. This direct comparison would reveal how disparaging to others Watson is in his lively, and entertaining autobiography.(less)

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Jul 05, 2008 Anne Thessen rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: those who enjoy biographies, science or women's studies

Recommended to Anne by: Ricky

I don't normally like biographies, but I enjoyed this book. Perhaps because I can relate to Rosalind Franklin. There was one part in the book where the author mentions that Franklin was unable to talk about her life's passion (science) with her loved ones. That struck a chord with me since I am also a scientist and I'm very used to people not really caring about what I do for a living. Most people will ask, but I know after a certain point their eyes will glaze over and they'll stop caring. If I...more

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Jan 30, 2008 Julieta rated it 4 of 5 stars

The Dark Lady of DNA is an oustanding non-fiction piece of literature. It is all about the life of Rosaling Franklin, and her part in the discovery of DNA. She had originally discovered DNA, but due to her lack of timing, she wasnt able to publish her data, therefore, thats Watson and Crick found her information, studied more upon it, and in the end got the most credit for the discovery of DNA. This is a great book for those of you who love science. I personally love reading about these scientif...more

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Apr 02, 2013 Julie rated it 1 of 5 stars

Je ne vais pas tourner autour du pot pendant des heures, mon impression peut se résumer à ceci : je n'ai pas aimé et ce, pour plusieurs raisons.

Lorsque j'ai postulé pour lire ce livre lors de la dernière édition de Masse Critique, je pensais recevoir un ouvrage mettant en scène le personnage de Rosalind Franklin. Autrement dit, que sa vie serait racontée, qu'il y aurait des dialogues,... Du coup, je m'attendais à quelque chose d'intéressant, de vivant, de prenant, de révoltant ou que sais-je enc...more Je ne vais pas tourner autour du pot pendant des heures, mon impression peut se résumer à ceci : je n'ai pas aimé et ce, pour plusieurs raisons.

Lorsque j'ai postulé pour lire ce livre lors de la dernière édition de Masse Critique, je pensais recevoir un ouvrage mettant en scène le personnage de Rosalind Franklin. Autrement dit, que sa vie serait racontée, qu'il y aurait des dialogues,... Du coup, je m'attendais à quelque chose d'intéressant, de vivant, de prenant, de révoltant ou que sais-je encore. Je suis loin, très loin, d'être amatrice de biographies mais dans ce cas, je pensais que j'apprécierais cette lecture que j'imaginais rédigée sur un ton féministe, dirons-nous. Vous vous en doutez... Ça n'a pas été le cas. Pas du tout.

Dès les premières pages, j'ai compris que je m'étais trompée. De profession, l'auteure est journaliste et je trouve que cela se ressent très fort dans sa façon d'écrire. Les faits sont rapportés de façon très carrée, sans réel travail de style. J'ai eu l'impression de lire un mémoire / travail de fin d'études / exposé. Bien sûr, puisqu'il s'agit d'une biographie, il n'était pas question de modifier la réalité mais je pense vraiment que l'auteure aurait pu aborder son bouquin différemment et le rendre plus attrayant. Par exemple, des phrases plus courtes n'auraient pas été de refus. Des explications supplémentaires sur les mots scientifiques auraient été utiles. Les informations auraient pu être un peu moins denses, moins condensées, ce qui aurait permis une lecture plus aisée et demandant beaucoup moins de concentration. Toutefois, il y a quand même un point positif : les extraits de correspondance de Rosalind sont appréciables car ils permettent de la remettre au rang d'être humain, de ressentir un peu de sympathie pour elle.

Par contre, je salue le travail de recherche qu'a effectué Brenda Maddox : le nombre de références reprises à la fin du livre est vraiment impressionnant et témoigne de son sérieux !

En bref, ce fut une lecture vraiment laborieuse et compliquée, j'avoue d'ailleurs avoir sauté plusieurs passages. Les recherches de Rosalind sont intéressantes, mais je suis sûre qu'elles le seraient encore plus si l'ouvrage était plus abordable (notamment pour les gens qui n'ont pas de formation scientifique, ce qui est mon cas) que ce soit au niveau de l'écriture ou au niveau du contenu. Honnêtement, je ne pense pas tenter de lire un autre ouvrage de cette auteure. Par contre, je compte bien m'intéresser aux éditions Des Femmes que je ne connaissais pas et qui ont l'air d'avoir un catalogue intéressant.(less)

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Apr 30, 2012 Mark rated it 5 of 5 stars

In the book "The Double Helix", Rosalind Franklin was presented as unpleasant, unattractive woman who was not fit to be doing science and was a road block in Watson's way to the double helix. There has been since the publication of the book a backlash to Watson's portrayal that has presented her as a martyr or a saint, unsung for her pivotal role in the discovery of the double helix. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. Brenda Maddox presents a comprehensive, analytical, balanced, and...more

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Apr 15, 2013 Aurelien rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: science

Scientist at a time when science was clearly a masculine and sexist world, dedicated to her work and career when women were more expected to be docile housewives, a free spirit, proud and independant (and paying dearly for that!) Rosalind Franklin was remarkable for more than a reason. Yet, her name will be forever associated with a stain: the controversies surrounding the discovery of the structure of DNA.

A stain because, if it was thanks to HER notes, HER work, HER X-Ray pictures consulted WIT...more

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Aug 10, 2010 Audrey rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: biography, nonfiction, science, britannia

Great biography on scientist Rosalind Franklin, whose x-ray crystallography data led Watson and Crick (used without her knowledge or permission) to their DNA discovery etc etc. Maddox details Franklin's life - her upbringing (upper-middle class Jewish in London), her education, her scientific works (studying coal in Paris, DNA at Kings College, and mainly tobacco mosaic virus at Birkbeck, and polio virus), her struggles with funding, and the relationships she had with her fellow researchers, fam...more

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Jul 21, 2012 Lindsey Young rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: nature-science

First off, James Watson is an asshole and everyone knows it. Also he's apparently racist, fat phobic, in favor of eugenics- in addition to being misogynistic (at least according to statements made by him posted on his wikipedia entry).

But, hang on this book was about an incredible lady named Franklin Rosalind! And wow oh wow, she is incredible! Though she could have worked more closer with her senior researcher named Wilkins (and doing so might have prevented him from literally running into the...more

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Sep 19, 2011 Amber rated it 3 of 5 stars

At times I didn't want to pick this book up but there were also times when I couldn't put it down. The story of Rosalind Franklin is so interesting but I could have done without all the long descriptions of coal and phosphates. I wanted more about her and less about what she was working on. But then again it is what she was working on the made her indispensable to science. It is amazing that all those cliquish male scientists didn't credit her for her discoveries, contributions and intelligence....more

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Sep 06, 2012 Brendan rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, history-journalism, biography, non-fiction, science

Rosalind Franklin is most remembered now as the unsung fourth contributor who found the evidence for Watson and Crick’s double-helix paper in the early 1950s. A brilliant experimentalist, Franklin actually made advances in three significant areas in her short life (she died of cancer at the age of 37): the understanding of coal, the shape of the DNA molecule, and the way RNA functions inside viruses.

A few notes about Maddox’s book and this remarkable scientist:

Franklin’s specialty was x-ray pho...more Rosalind Franklin is most remembered now as the unsung fourth contributor who found the evidence for Watson and Crick’s double-helix paper in the early 1950s. A brilliant experimentalist, Franklin actually made advances in three significant areas in her short life (she died of cancer at the age of 37): the understanding of coal, the shape of the DNA molecule, and the way RNA functions inside viruses.

A few notes about Maddox’s book and this remarkable scientist:

Franklin’s specialty was x-ray photography, a science that was used to analyze the shape of molecules and particles somehow. Thankfully, Maddox spends very little time on the minutiae of how these discoveries work, focusing instead on explaining the broad outlines of what Franklin discovered. She made her name in this field by studying coal, particularly in her discovery that there were some kinds of coal that never turned into graphite no matter how hot they were heated.
In the last four years of her life, Franklin made big advances in the study of viruses, findings that ultimately may have been more significant for the fact that they weren’t at such a heated centerpoint of debate. Indeed, someone else would have proven the double-helix within a short time if Franklin hadn’t been doing that work. Her virus work was more singular.
Franklin has been characterized as abrupt and cold, aggressive and unable to converse easily. At the same time, she’s described as caring and heartfelt, passionate and humane. While these perspectives seem at odds, Maddox describes most of the abrupt personality as tied to her workplace demeanor, while her warmer side was reserved for casual time. Maddox suggests that her upbringing fostered a defensiveness that may have contributed to this persona she adopted. (Apparently, Franklin was particularly sensitive to anything she thought was anti-Semitic, even if the suspicions were groundless.)
In the last couple years of her life, Franklin gained significant recognition for her work, and did two tours of the US, where she met scientists in labs all over the country. I was interested to read that she spent some time at Cold Spring Harbor, which was the research home for Barbara McClintock in that same era. I like to imagine that they met one another.

The most debated period of her life stems from her short stint at King’s college, where she and a postgrad were working on x-ray photography of DNA. At the same time, Watson and Crick were up the street at Cambridge, trying to model the structure of DNA. Franklin’s colleague at King’s, Wilkins, was also working on the problem, but didn’t have Franklin’s technical skill with x-ray photography. Thus, when he wanted her to collaborate with him and share information with Watson and Crick, she became defensive and territorial, feeling like a less talented superior was trying to mooch her hard-won data. Her approach was that models could not prove anything, thatdata was needed in order to prove their case, so she pursued her data. Then Wilkins shared her data with Watson and Crick without her permission, when it was quite clear that she would not have wanted him to. Her data led to their breakthrough, and within months they had staked their claim to the theory.

While she and Wilkins were acknowledged as contributors in the notes of their paper, Watson and Crick didn’t give them co-author status. But while Franklin may have felt upset, Maddox points out that she didn’t seem to have any particular anger or grudge over the issue. Indeed, she was just happy to get away to Birkbeck and begin her research on viruses. In the years between Watson and Crick’s paper (March 1953) and her own death (April 1958), she carried on a friendly correspondence with both Watson and Crick, going so far as to spend time in a social context with each and maintain a rather hearty work relationship with Watson.

This continued collegiality makes what happened after Franklin’s death so strange. When Watson wrote his novelistic adventurous tale, The Double Helix, Rosalind appears as a shrewish hoarder, obstinately refusing to share her data but also intellectually incapable of making proper use of it, practicallyforcing Watson and Crick to sneak a peek. Both Crick and Watson maintained, for a long time, a recognition that her data was crucial to their solution, but withholding proper credit for her work. Other people in the community were shocked and angered at this portrayal and have, in various places, defended her vigorously; so much so, in fact, that she has become very well known for the unfair treatment she had from Watson and Crick. Maddox suggests that perhaps their portrayals of her stem from a deep unresolved guilt about having used her data without her knowledge, and then never really getting the chance to share that credit later on.

Maddox does a great job of presenting Franklin’s life in an even-handed way. She’s fair to Watson without flinching at his missteps and lies, but she also acknowledges where Franklin’s own personality foibles exacerbated occasional problems with colleagues. This is an excellent book, a strong biography with good storytelling and research. The second half is better than the first, starting about the time she arrives at King’s college (no surprise that the controversy is the most interesting, I suppose).(less)

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Sep 11, 2008 Books Ring Mah Bell rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: science nerds

Shelves: memo-auto-bio, science-med-psych

She got robbed.

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Dec 29, 2011 Stephanie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson were awarded the Nobel Prize for their elucidation of DNA's structure. It has been pretty well established that they could not have discovered that structure (at least at the time they did so) without the unpublished data of Rosalind Franklin, one of Wilkins' colleagues at King's College, London. The data and a critical photograph (the now-famous "Photograph 51") was obtained and used in a somewhat questionable manner, and most of the men...more

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Jan 07, 2010 Reenie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction, science, female-author

Another book wading into the (auto)biographical minefield that is the discovery of the structure of DNA. (And by minefield I'm thinking more after everything's been blown up already and everything is one ugly tangled mess of mud and holes and bitterness.) On the other hand, this is a pretty good one, carefully researched and generally even-handed, focused more on putting forward a complete picture of Rosalind Franklin's life and personality rather than getting too caught up in the debate about w...more Another book wading into the (auto)biographical minefield that is the discovery of the structure of DNA. (And by minefield I'm thinking more after everything's been blown up already and everything is one ugly tangled mess of mud and holes and bitterness.) On the other hand, this is a pretty good one, carefully researched and generally even-handed, focused more on putting forward a complete picture of Rosalind Franklin's life and personality rather than getting too caught up in the debate about whether she was a feminist martyr/victim at the mercy of the science old boys club.

It's definitely and interesting life and a very very interesting personality, one clearly capable of rubbing people the wrong way (that in a scientist? Shocking! Yeah, not really) but also far more than that. I think the book's at its strongest when describing how Rosalind related with (or failed to relate with) the various people around her, how she ran her lab group, and went after funding and new experiments.

However, there's definitely a few things I would have liked to have not seen, or seen in different places. Given that, historically, the DNA discovery and writing about the DNA discovery, is an afore-mentioned minefield, there's no way to avoid continually referencing previous accounts and the debate and myths that have arisen, and in the epilogue, Maddox explains some of the context of the various accounts written about it, starting with Watson's the Double Helix (which seems to have pissed off every single other person who featured in it for its wildly skewed accounts of... pretty much everyone). Given that the body of the book continually references the debates that sprung up from the Double Helix and subsequent books, while apparently assuming that everyone is well-versed with the different accounts, I think some of her context needed to come before the end of the book - it would be more useful for the casual reader (those who haven't been following all the accounts), if more clearly (and maybe awkwardly) dealing with accumulated baggage, to set out the debate before wading in.

Also, I could have done without a lot of the first two or three chapters... the stuff about childhood and family kind of dragged, and wasn't nearly as interesting as it seemed to think it was. Unlike the Adams family, there aren't five miles of microfilm of Franklin's letters, and sometimes it shows, adding in details that mostly ended up feeling like filler, rather than illuminating tidbits. Once it gets to her PhD and subsequent career though, it generally picks up.

Secondly, although Maddox mostly stays clear of the angry feminist 'reading of the data' that has occasionally abounded in accounts of Franklin, sometimes things like this sneak in:

"But the male fear of the female has always been absurd - the stronger afraid of the weaker - but no less real for that. To dismiss it is to dismiss the Medusa, the Loathly Lady, the Wicked Witch of the West and all the other guises for whatever the male resents and recoils from in the female..."

Euggh. Shut up, or save it for the literary criticism, because in a biography of a well-respected scientist, female or male, that kind of sentence and 'analysis' just sounds stupid. Seriously stupid. (Yeah, I bookmarked that page when I came across it, because it bugged me enough to want to save it for the review... could you guess?)(less)

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Sep 19, 2008 David rated it 2 of 5 stars

I found the childhood and family-of-origin material here boring, which is obviously a matter of taste. I'm not sure a full biography was warranted. Clearly the main hook is the story of the subject's role in the Watson/Crick discovery of the structure of DNA.

I have some interest in the sociology and history of science, and I used to edit an academic journal, so I was fully prepared to be fascinated by the story of rushing to publication, properly or improperly crediting one's peers, sexism in sc...more

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Jun 10, 2007 Penny rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a biography of one of the scientists whose work contributed partly to the discovery of the structure of DNA, although her work was used without her knowledge or consent. She was the infamous "Rosy" in James Watson's "The Double Helix." This biography gives a more complete and balanced picture of her childhood and early education, and her successful career before, during, and after the "Double Helix" era.

After reading Watson's book and the way he belittled her throughout (although he did...more

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Apr 25, 2012 Folliesgirl14 marked it as to-read

My teacher actually mentioned her in biology class. Later, when reviewing for a test, he asked the class which scientist(s) automatically come to mind when we think of DNA, everyone said (and probably thought) "Watson and Crick!" while I thought "Rosalind Franklin!"

I don't know what it is about scientists, but I just find them so fascinating...even though I've never had a great love of science as a subject. I'm glad Rosalind is beginning to get recognition for her contributions to DNA research.

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Aug 05, 2012 Shelley rated it 5 of 5 stars

It's hard to believe that it hasn't even been 60-years since the discovery of DNA as a double helix! A must-read for any scientist. I don't even know where to begin with this biography because it as so interesting and well-written unlike some that tend to be so dry (I couldn't put it down). The author did an amazing job with this story presenting facts and leaving characterization to the reader. She really set the stage with blending historical fact around the cultural and societal events that w...more

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Feb 15, 2012 Karen rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book made me so mad! Because a woman did the work and a dishonest man, Watson, went into her lab, took a look at her photographs...and was able to use her information along with his and Crick's to come up with their paper about DNA. But they never once acknowledged using her work though every one knew they did. She died of cancer before long, and sInce then England has tried to make up for the slight. Watson is still an ass...

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Aug 29, 2010 Jessica rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was a really well-written and interesting biography. I knew that Rosalind Franklin's work was crucial in the determination of DNA's structure and that she hasn't received all the credit she deserved, but I was really impressed by all her other scientific accomplishments.

The thing that surprised me most is that she actually seems to have had very cordial relationships with both Watson and Crick (especially Crick). It makes me wonder why Watson was so unfair to her in his book. Of course, on...more

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Sep 05, 2012 Alison added it

A surprisingly good read for a biography of a scientist (and me not being a science person at all). Rosalind Franklin took a famous photo, Photo 51, that when seen (surreptitiously) by Crick, convinced him that DNA was indeed a double helix. She was working on the same problem at the time, and had no idea how pivotal her photo was to their discovery.

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Mar 19, 2011 Amanda rated it 4 of 5 stars

Before starting this book, I knew James Watson was a kook, but I didn't realize he was also a crook. This book sets the record straight about a passionate scientist who happened to be woman. Through her own words and the recollections of the people who knew her best, you get the complete picture of this complicated, intelligent and vibrant person who played the key role in one of the most important discoveries of the last century. The inaccuracies about her scientific approach, intelligence and...more

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Jul 06, 2011 Amy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: autobiographies-biographies-memoirs, history, science, health-care-related, non-fiction

It's been quite awhile now since I've read this book, but today it came back into my mind as I was thinking about significant women in history. This really is a remarkable story about a woman who was not given her due in one of the most important scientific discoveries of the 20th century.

This book was very readable to the layperson. I don't know if Rosalind Franklin and her male colleagues were treated fairly or not in this book because I'm not a scientist and haven't studied these events and p...more

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May 13, 2011 Caitlin rated it 3 of 5 stars

This cartoon by Kate Beaton sums up the book perfectly.

Rosalind Franklin was a brilliant scientist whose findings were used by male scientists who later maligned her publicly for being, in their opinion, an old dowdy bitchface who didn't know anything anyway.

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Oct 02, 2010 Bev rated it 5 of 5 stars

I am surprised that I enjoyed this book so much. I couldn't put it down. I'm very ignorant about science, but something about Rosalind's story resonated with me very strongly. Very well written and fair.

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Nov 20, 2012 Julie rated it 5 of 5 stars

The true discoverer of the double-helix, but forced in the shadows by men seeking fame and fortune. A compelling story of a brilliant scientist who simply loved the art of science.

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Mar 17, 2013 Bastian Greshake rated it 3 of 5 stars

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I have to revise my earlier judgement about the book. It starts really slow but picks up pace after the first ~30%. For my taste the boring parts focus too much on Franklin's extended family, going back at least two generations if I'm not completely wrong. While I do get the notion that your family shapes who you are or will become later in life this didn't interest me too much and the most important thing you learn from all this family talk: No, neither her father nor the rest of her family did...more

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Apr 12, 2011 Tay Mueller rated it 2 of 5 stars

I was familiar with the basics of her story, but recently I was encouraged to find out more because of this quote:
Her photographs of DNA were called "among the most beautiful X-ray photographs of any substance ever taken,"

and this fabulous cartoon by Kate Beaton

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Jan 09, 2010 Stormy added it

This was a most determined woman who didn't ever give up her quest for knowledge in science. She also like to drive fast in a time when most women didn't even drive.

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Mar 25, 2013 Laura rated it 4 of 5 stars

Had to read this book after seeing the play "Photograph 51". I really enjoyed reading it, and the insight it gave into the life and work of this overlooked scientist who provided key data to make the discovery of the double helix possible.

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Aug 23, 2012 Gladys rated it 3 of 5 stars

Interesting read about the bias women had to endure as they worked alongside of men in scientific research. She was one complicated lady!

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