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Books
Maddox, B. (2002). Rosalind Franklin: the dark lady of DNA. HarperCollins: New York.
In March 1953, Maurice Wilkins of King’s College, London, announced the departure of his obstructive colleague Rosalind Franklin to rival Cavendish Laboratory scientist Francis Crick. But it was too late. Franklin’s unpublished data and crucial photograph of DNA had already been seen by her competitors at the Cambridge University lab. With the aid of these, plus their own knowledge, Watson and Crick discovered the structure of the molecule that genes are composed of — DNA, the secret of life
Glynn, J. (2012). My sister Rosalind Franklin. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
Swaby, R. (). Headstrong: 52 women who changed science– and the world.
Journal Articles
Parshall, G. (1998). Double-teaming the double helix. U.S. News & World Report, 125(7), 72.
Focuses on how the discovery of the structure for a salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA) was made. James Watson and Francis Crick credited with the discovery of the molecule structure that carries inherited traits; The role of crystallographer Rosalind Franklin’s work on their breakthrough;
Elkin, L. O. (2003). Rosalind Franklin and the Double Helix. Physics Today, 56(3), 42.
Focuses on the life and work of King’s College scientist Rosalind Franklin. Her education and career background; Details on Franklin’s research work which contributed to the discovery of two forms and the structure of DNA; Inadequacy of the acknowledgment given to Franklin with regards to her work. INSETS: Box 1. The Evolution of Franklin’s Intuition;Box 2. The Helix Funeral Invitation;Box 3. Frustrated Contributors to DNA Structure.
Sheppard, R. (2003). CRACKING THE GENETIC CODE. Maclean’s, 116(12), 48.
A few years back, not long after Dolly the cloned ewe was sprung on an unsuspecting world, an Australian researcher reported that DNA was so ubiquitous it was literally oozing out of our pores. It’s 50 years since Cambridge-based scientists James Watson and Francis Crick started the genetic revolution with their depiction of what deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, looked like (a double helix, like an entwined pair of circular staircases) and how it might replicate itself. Scientists began talking about ridding the world of inherited disorders like Down’s syndrome, of tailoring drug treatments to an individual’s genetic makeup, of stopping cancer in its tracks, of finding the DNA switch to extend the human lifespan, of ending global hunger with disease-resistant foods, of growing new pharmaceuticals simply and cheaply in a field of wheat.