Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
Brenda Maddox · 2002
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About this book
The untold story of the woman who helped to make one of humanity's greatest discoveries - DNA - but who was never given credit for doing so. Our dark lady is leaving us next week; on 7 March 1953 Maurice Wilkins of King's College, London, wrote to Francis Crick at the Cavendish laboratories in Cambridge to say that as soon as his obstructive female colleague was gone from King's, he, Crick, and James Watson, a young American working with Crick, could go full speed ahead with solving the structure of the DNA molecule that lies in every gene. Not long after, the pair whose names will be forever linked announced to the world that they had discovered the secret of life.
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