| Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA Perennial Edition Contributor(s): Maddox, Brenda (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060985089 ISBN-13: 9780060985080 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2003 Annotation: The untold story of the woman whose role in the discovery of DNAUs structure is one of the most fascinating and controversial in modern science, is told here by the prize-winning author of "Nora: The Real Molly Bloom." Photo inserts. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Science | Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics - Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.70 lbs) 416 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Maddox, Brenda: - Brenda Maddox is an award-winning biographer whose work has been translated into ten languages. Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, the Silver PEN Award, and the French Prix du Mailleur Livre Etranger. Her life of D. H. Lawrence won the Whitbread Biography Award in 1974, and Yeats's Ghosts, on the married life of W. B. Yeats, was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 1998. She has been Home Affairs Editor for the Economist, has served as chairman of the Association of British Science Writers and is a member of the Royal Society's Science and Society Committee. She lives in London and Mid-Wales. |