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Articles by Brenda Maddox
Was the DNA Molecule Discovered by a Female Jewish Scientist?
Ask any schoolchild “Who discovered the double helix molecule of DNA?” and their response will be Francis Crick and James Watson. After all, along with Maurice Wilkins, they all won a 1962 Nobel prize for that discovery. But is that answer totally accurate? Did sexism and prejudice account for overlooking another scientist? Who was Rosalind Franklin? Rosalind Franklin was born into a distinguished Jewish family in the Notting Hill neighborhood of London on July 25, 1920.
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA|NOOK Book
Read an Excerpt Rosalind Franklin The Dark Lady of DNA Chapter One Once in Royal David's City The Family into which Rosalind Elsie Franklin was born on 25 July 1920, stood high in Anglo-Jewry. Not at the very top: the highest rank was occupied by the oldest Jewish families in England, the Sephardi Jews of Spanish and Portuguese descent who arrived at the time of Cromwell.
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
Rosalind Franklin (Paperback) The Dark Lady of DNA By Brenda Maddox Harper Perennial, 9780060985080, 416pp. Publication Date: September 30, 2003 Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover (10/1/2002) List Price: 16.99* * Individual store prices may vary. Description In 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson received the Nobel Prize, but it was Rosalind Franklin's data and photographs of DNA that led to their discovery.
Before Watson and Crick
For a number of physicists who had worked on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb, the post-war shift into biology was a stark exchange of the science of death for the science of life. But their conversion was as much intellectual as ideological. Biology was now where the action lay. The war had interrupted a line of investigation leading towards understanding the chemical basis of heredity.
Brenda Maddox reviews ‘Ingrid Bergman’ by Ingrid Bergman and Alan Burgess · LRB 2 July 1981
There is a kind of woman who refuses dessert and then reaches over with her fork and eats most of her husband’s. Does it tell us something about Miss Bergman’s capacity for self-deception that she could neither leave Alan Burgess alone to write her biography nor sit down and write her own? SIR: Who is Brenda Maddox (LRB, 2 July) to insist that Ingrid Bergman strip naked or not at all? Why should she explain where all her Hollywood evenings went?
Women in science: Weird sisters?
James Watson was thrilled to catch an illicit glimpse of Rosalind Franklin's X-ray photograph suggesting the double-helical structure of DNA. He was much less impressed by her personal appearance.
George’s Ghosts: The Secret Life of W B Yeats
Publishing a new biography of W B Yeats was always going to be a risky business. First there is the matter of R F Foster’s opening slice of ‘authorised’ life, which came out as recently as 1997. Then there are the many newish and specific studies that view the silly, grand old man in the context of his gifted family, his long-time yearning for Maud Gonne and, finally, his belief in spirits, eugenics, and all manner of sloppy nonsense.
Nothing But the Truth?
To the Editors: Janet Malcolm’s article, “The Morality of Journalism,” in your issue of March I took my breath away. She claims that it is standard journalistic practice—and moral, too—to clean up spoken quotations to make them grammatical and economical even if this means that they are not “identical with their speech counterparts.” From my experience as a journalist and biographer on both sides of the Atlantic, the very opposite is true.
JOYCE, NORA AND THE WORD KNOWN TO ALL MEN (Published 1988)
Credit...The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from May 15, 1988, Section 7, Page 1Buy Reprints TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.
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