Webmaster's Notes:
1. Further details about Rosalind Franklin's work can be found on the World
Wide Web:
- At the American Institute of Physics project on 'Contributions of
20th Century Women to Physics' ( described in the last issue of
'Crystallography News' June 97 page 17 ) the URL is:
http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/~cwp/
2. The National Portrait Gallery
' and
The Royal Society
with support from COPUS prepared a free leaflet 'Science and the
Portrait' for visitors to the Gallery, St. Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE
tel: (0171)306 0055. It is a trail round the portraits of scientists in the
Gallery included a photograph of Rosalind Franklin.
3. There is a 'blue plaque' on the house where she lived
in 'Donovan Court, Drayton Gardens, LONDON SW7'
4. There have been many books written about the discovery of the double helix
here are a few.
- 1968 The Double Helix James D. Watson
an easy to read account of how this research was done by one of the
scientists involved, written from a personal viewpoint, to be read by
the general public, to try to show something of the reality of scientific
research. It is an exciting read, but not always strictly accurate.
- 1975 Rosalind Franklin and DNA Anne Sayre
pub. W.W.Norton, New York ISBN 0-393-00868-1.
gives further insight into the work on which the discovery of the double
helix was based and Rosalind
Franklin's life, written by her friend Anne Sayre trying to correct some of
the statements made in Watson's book.
- 1979 The Eighth Day of Creation. Makers of the Revolution in
Biology Horace Freeland Judson Pub. Jonathan Cape;
Penguin 1995. A dramatic historical narrative of the early days of structural
molecular biology.
- 1989 What Mad Pursuit. A personal view of scientific discovery
Francis Crick pub Weidebfeld and Nicholson 1979 now
available in Penguin. An alternate view of the research involved.
- 1985 In search of the double helix: Darwin, DNA and beyond"
John Gribbin Pub. Wildwood, now Corgi ISBN 0-552-12656-X
a popular account for the general reader of the background to these discoveries
has a useful 12 page bibliography of books on these topics.
- 1994 The path to the Double Helix: the Discovery of DNA
Robert Olby Pub. originally 1974 University of Washington Press, now
Dover ISBN 0-486-68117-3 (suggested by Judith Murray-Rust )
- 2002
Rosalind Franklin the dark lady of DNA
Brenda Maddox pub 2002 Harper Collins ISBN 0 00 257 1498 £20 400pages
- 2012 My sister ROSALIND FRANKLIN Jenifer Glynn
Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-019-969962-9 160 pages
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