My Sister Rosalind Franklin - Hardcover

Glynn, Jenifer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199699623 ISBN 13: 9780199699629

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2012

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

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)

Jenifer Glynn has written a wonderful book - essential reading for all who are interested in Rosalind or the DNA story. (Brenda Maddox, author of Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA)

This is a very readable account of Rosalind Franklin's life written by her much younger sister, Jenifer Glynn... I can thoroughly recommend it. (The Bulle tin of The Royal College of Pathologists, August 2013)

About the Author:

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0199699623
• ISBN 13: 9780199699629
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192