Rosalind Franklin : The Dark Lady of DNA

Rosalind Franklin
Author(s): Brenda Maddox

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 of the greatest scientific discovery of the twentieth century.

Review(s):
“Maddox does justice to her subject as only the best biographers can.”
“Lively, absorbing and even handed … What emerges is the complex portrait of a passionate, flawed, courageous women.”
“Brenda Maddox has done a great service to science and history.”
“Thoughtful and engaging.”
“A sensitive, sympathetic look at a women whose life was greater than the sum if its parts.”
“An excellent biography … Maddox’s account of Franklin’s last years and premature death is moving and poignant.”
“In this sympathetic biography, Maddox …illuminates her subject as a gifted scientist and a complex woman.”
“Able, balanced and well researched.”
“Maddox does an excellent job of revisiting Franklin’s scientific contributions while revealing her complicated personality.”
“A finely crafted biography.”

Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist

ISBN:  9780060985080