num_pages: 416
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.
language: English
title: Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
titlecomplete: Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
characters: Rosalind Franklin
genres: Genetics, Historical, History, Feminism, Womens, Biology, Science, Biography Memoir, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2335
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Science and Technology, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Marsh Biography Award
publisher: Harper Perennial