Rosalind Franklin

by Maddox, Brenda

• ISBN13: 9780060985080
• ISBN10: 0060985089
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-11
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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 Meilleur 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

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Prologue	p. xvii
Once in Royal David's City	p. 3
'Alarmingly Clever'	p. 13
Once a Paulina	p. 25
Never Surrender	p. 43
Holes in Coal	p. 70
Woman of the Left Bank	p. 87
Seine v. Strand	p. 108
What Is Life?	p. 119
Joining the Circus	p. 125
Such a Funny Lab	p. 141
The Undeclared Race	p. 168
Eureka and Goodbye	p. 190
Escaping Notice	p. 207
The Acid Next Door	p. 217
O My America	p. 233
New Friends, New Enemies	p. 249
Postponed Departure	p. 271
Private Health, Public Health	p. 286
Clarity and Perfection	p. 295
Epilogue: Life After Death	p. 311
Notes	p. 329
Bibliography	p. 353
Index	p. 368
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