From the Bookshelf of Science and Inquiry…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
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
The book was a good one. The life it portrayed a great one. Definitely a story I had not heard. And the bits of the story I had heard had not come through true. Not a simple or easy read. This was a fairly in depth biography for someone clearly focused on specific pieces of a life. Because of Rosalind's letters and her friends, we get more a picture of who she really was then we might have. It does not portray her as perfect or even-tempered. It portrays her as a talented capable scientist stron
...more
Jun 24, 2010
Laura
added it
She's my hero, and Watson and Crick totally ripped her off.
...more
Dec 25, 2010
Anna
marked it as to-read
Jun 09, 2011
Gregor
marked it as to-read
Jun 23, 2011
Melissa
marked it as to-read
Sep 16, 2011
AER
marked it as to-read
Sep 21, 2011
Eileen Conner
marked it as want-to-read-2
May 25, 2012
Persephone
marked it as to-read
Nov 09, 2012
Shadowspawn
marked it as to-read
Mar 06, 2013
Barbok
marked it as to-read
Mar 13, 2014
Erica
marked it as to-read
Jul 30, 2014
Sarah Ngaothong
marked it as to-read
Sep 05, 2014
Erica
marked it as to-read
Feb 11, 2015
Juniper
marked it as to-read
Nov 22, 2015
Sally
marked it as to-read
May 03, 2016
Erica Renée
marked it as to-read
Jun 11, 2017
Franziska Koeppen
marked it as to-read
May 05, 2019
Keeley
marked it as to-read
Jun 15, 2019
Samy
marked it as to-read
Nov 30, 2019
Britt Aamodt
marked it as to-read
Mar 08, 2021
Eric Bingham
marked it as to-read
