Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA (Perennial) - Softcover

"Maddox does an excellent job of revisiting Franklin's scientific contributions while revealing her complicated personality."--Library Journal

"A joy to read."--Sunday Telegraph

"A sensitive, sympathetic look at a women whose life was greater than the sum if its parts."--New York Times Book Review

"Maddox does justice to her subject as only the best biographers can."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Brenda Maddox has done a great service to science and history."--San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

"A vivid three-dimensional portrait of a sciencetist and human being ... a moving biography."--Daily Telegraph (London)

"A finely crafted biography."--Booklist

"Lively, absorbing and even handed ... What emerges is the complex portrait of a passionate, flawed, courageous women."--Washington Post Book World

"A meticulous biography...[Rosalind Franklin] was the unacknowledged heroine of DNA, the Sylvia Plath of molecular biology."--The Economist

"Thoughtful and engaging."--Chicago Tribune

The author of Yeats's Ghosts reveals the frequently overlooked story of the woman who helped discover the double helix structure of DNA, detailing the contributions of scientist Rosalind Franklin to the work of Watson, Crick, and Wilkins. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.