5/24/2023 0 Comments Rosalind Franklin by Brenda Maddox![]() ![]() “A gripping yet nuanced account … a magnificent biography.” - The Independent “Maddox does an excellent job of revisiting Franklin’s scientific contributions while revealing her complicated personality.” - Library Journal ![]() “Able, balanced and well researched.” - Science “In this sympathetic biography, Maddox …illuminates her subject as a gifted scientist and a complex woman.” - Publishers Weekly “An excellent biography … Maddox’s account of Franklin’s last years and premature death is moving and poignant.” - Women's Review of Books “A sensitive, sympathetic look at a women whose life was greater than the sum if its parts.” - New York Times Book Review ![]() “Thoughtful and engaging.” - Chicago Tribune “Brenda Maddox has done a great service to science and history.” - San Francisco Chronicle Book Review “Lively, absorbing and even handed … What emerges is the complex portrait of a passionate, flawed, courageous women.” - Washington Post Book World ![]() “Maddox does justice to her subject as only the best biographers can.” - Los Angeles Times Book Review 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.īrenda 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. ![]()
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