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My Sister Rosalind Franklin
Jenifer Glynn
192 pages
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A number of black and white family photographs
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216x138mm
978-0-19-969962-9
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Hardback
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22 March 2012
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- Compelling family memoir written by Franklin's own sister
- A personal view of Rosalind Franklin's life - of her personality, her family and background, and the authors own recollections
- Explores not only Franklin's work on DNA, but also draws out her work on coals, carbon, and viruses
- Includes quotes from many of Franklin's letters to her famly and is illustrated with a number of family photographs
Rosalind Franklin is famous in the history of science for her contribution to the discovery of the structure of DNA, the start of the greatest biological revolution of the twentieth century. Much has been written about the importance of her part, and about how her work was affected by her position as a woman scientist. Above all she was a distinguished scientist, not only in her work on DNA, but also in her earlier work on coals and carbons and in her later work on viruses.
In this family memoir her sister, the writer and historian Jenifer Glynn, paints a full picture of
Rosalind's life. Looking at Rosalind's background; her early education, her time as a science student at Cambridge, and her relations with her family, to her life as an adult and her time in Paris and at King's, Glynn shows how much her sister achieved and how she was influenced by the social and intellectual climate of the period she worked in.Readership: General readers interested in popular science, the story of DNA, and also in the historical story of women in science.
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Jenifer Glynn, Writer and historian Jenifer Glynn read History at Cambridge and is the author of several books, including Prince of Publishers (1986), about the Victorian publisher George Smith, and The Pioneering Garretts: breaking the barriers for women (2008).
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"In this short and intensely personal memoir, Franklin emerges as a warm, self-willed, conscientious, practical, bold, imaginative and caring daughter, sister, niece and aunt." - Georgina Ferry, Times Literary Supplement
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Prologue
1: Notting Hill
2: Childhood and Early Schooling
3: Early Education of a Scientist
4: A Science Student in Wartime Cambridge
5: A False Start
6: Winning the War, with Coals and Carbons
7: Happiness in Paris
8: Misery in London
9: Viruses, Models, and Success
10: Afterlife
12: Afterlife
Endnotes
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