Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

by Brenda Maddox (2002)

Biography of Rosalind Franklin, a Jewish woman scientist around the time of World War II. The great question is: had she not died of cancer at age 37, would she have been awarded the Nobel Prize in favor of Maurice Wilkins for her X-ray crystallography work on the structure of DNA?

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA