Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady Of Dna [Paperback]

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.

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 & Maddoxs account of Franklins 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 Franklins scientific contributions while revealing her complicated personality.A finely crafted biography.A gripping yet nuanced account & a magnificent biography.A joy to read.A meticulous biography&[Rosalind Franklin] was the unacknowledged heroine of DNA, the Sylvia Plath of molecular biology.A vivid three-dimensional portrait of a sciencetist and human being & a moving biography.