Rosalind Franklin and DNA
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (939 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393320448 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Anyone who read The Double Helix owes it to Franklin to read her story too. -- Newsweek
Photographs. Rosalind Franklin's research was central to the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA. She never received the credit she was due during her lifetime. In this classic work Anne Sayre, a journalist and close friend of Franklin, puts the record straight
A great book This book deals with one of the most significant discoveries of the century, the structure of DNA. In doing so, it captures science, culture, personalities, and interpersonal relations. Anyone who thinks science is objective will learn that it is not. The author gets her science right, and in doing so tells a riveting and often personally tragic s. What "The Double Helix" didn't tell you Sayre's book is a biography with an agenda. It is also one of the rare instances where an author is sufficiently thoughtful and objective to keep the agenda from ruining the piece.Rosalind Franklin was a chemist doing x-ray crystallography on DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) in Maurice Wilkins' laboratory at King's College, London. Concurrently, James . Brilliant report on the tragic life and career of a lady scientist Rosalind Franklin was a topnotch crystallographer in the U.K. who discovered the double helical structure of DNA in the 1950's and was about to publish it. But the scientists who received the immediate credit and enjoyed fame for the discovery were three men who worked on the same problem by modeling, a method rather different from that of Rosalin
. Anne Sayre was a well-known journalist and a close friend of Rosalind Franklin's