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. Review of Rosalind Franklin: the dark lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox.

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 Franklin's unpublished data and crucial photograph of DNA had already been seen by her competitors at the Cambridge University lab.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. The untold story of the woman who helped to make one of humanitys greatest discoveries DNA but who was never given credit for doing so. Rosalind Franklin is the little known analyst whose x-ray photographs inspired Watson and Cricks Nobel prize winning work on the discovery of the double helix.

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