My Sister Rosalind Franklin - Couverture rigide

Glynn, Jenifer

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199699623 ISBN 13 : 9780199699629

Editeur : OUP Oxford, 2012

Synopsis

In this memoir of Rosalind Franklin, her sister, the writer and historian Jenifer Glynn, tells the story of Rosalind's life; her relationship with her family, her part in the DNA story, and her early death from cancer. Using Rosalind's letters and family photographs, Glynn reveals sides of her sister's life that will surprise and delight readers.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Revue de presse :

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)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: OUP Oxford
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0199699623
• ISBN 13: 9780199699629
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 192