The instant I saw the photograph my mouth fell open and my pulse began to race
Does Rosalind Franklin know how precious her photograph is? In the race to discover the secret of life it could be the one to hold the key. With rival scientists everywhere looking for the answer, who will be first to see it and more importantly, understand it?
Anna Zieglers extraordinary play looks at the woman who helped unlock DNAs double helix and asks what is sacrificed in the pursuit of science, love and a place in history.
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Review
"Were the play simply to assert that Franklin was robbed of the prestige that was rightly hers - it would serve a valid but rather worthy purpose. It's much more fascinating than that, though. It deals with timely feminist issues but also the key fundamentals of how we relate to each other, who we are, our tragic flaws...A triumph." -- TheTelegraph
"An illuminating kind of theatrical X-ray... Photograph 51 neatly coils a scientific detective story around a rumination on how sexism, personality and morality can impact collaboration and creativity...It honors Franklin by painting her as a complete person, with flaws and sterling attributes, and by evoking the thrills and risks of scientific pursuit itself." -- The Seattle Times
From the Inside Flap
Rosalind Franklin was a gifted research scientist who was part of the race to uncover the secrets of DNA in the 1950's. Her more famous contemporaries Watson and Crick took all the kudos for the discovery of the molecule's double helix structure yet it was Franklin's skill with X-ray diffraction that first uncovered what's called "the secret of life."
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Number of Words in Auth: 2
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All Identifiers : amazon:B01557IQDK, goodreads:26196137, google:EUQDswEACAAJ, isbn:9781783199358
Single Author : Anna Ziegler
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