In our second episode, we discuss the misogyny and sexism inherent to 1950’s academia as we explore the life of Rosalind Franklin -- a truly tenacious scientist whose contributions were at the heart of James Watson and Francis Crick’s Nobel Prize-winning work on DNA.
Sources:
Rosalind Franklin on Wikipedia
U.S. National Library of Medicine Biography
The Rosalind Franklin Papers
READING LIST:
Jenifer Glynn | My Sister Rosalind Franklin | (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Kersten T. Hall | The Man in the Monkeynut Coat: William Astbury and the Forgotten Road to the Double-Helix | (Oxford University Press, 2014)
Brenda Maddox | Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA | (HarperCollins, 2002)
Anne Sayre | Rosalind Franklin and DNA | (first published 1975; W. W. Norton, 2000)
James D. Watson | The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA | (first published 1968; W&N, 2010)
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