Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, (Paperback)

from PDCRead

Franklin was a renowned scientist in her own right, she established her reputation in X-ray photography starting with coal and moving onto viruses and DNA. She was a feisty character, and in her tragically short career she made as many friends as enemies. Crick and Watson are the guys credited wi...

from greeniezona

When asked to name women in science, Rosalind Franklin is always high on my list. Yet before reading this book, I knew only the barest facts about her: that she was gifted at x-ray crystallography, that Watson & Crick's DNA model would have been impossible (or really, terribly inaccurate) without...

from elbakerone

This biography paints an amazing picture of a courageous female scientist who broke glass ceilings on every step of her academic journey. Rosalind Franklin is the little known analyst whose x-ray photographs inspired Watson and Crick's Nobel prize winning work on the discovery of the double helix...

from miketroll

A fine portrait of a major contributor to the discovery of DNA. This biography absorbs the reader at many levels - RF's fascinating, complex personality; the struggles of a talented woman in a man's world; the labour pains of scientific discovery; academic politics; crude ambition; stupendous cou...

from elbakerone

This biography paints an amazing picture of a courageous female scientist who broke glass ceilings on every step of her academic journey. Rosalind Franklin is the little known analyst whose x-ray photographs inspired Watson and Crick's Nobel prize winning work on the discovery of the double helix...