Rosalind Franklin: Evidence in the Pattern
100 Lives That Shaped the World · Episode 39
- Historical Biographies
- 42 min
- Ages 12–99
- 10 chapters
About this audiobook
A biography of Rosalind Franklin that follows wartime coal research, Paris crystallography, DNA fibers and Photograph 51, institutional conflict at King's, and major virus work at Birkbeck.
Why it's worth a listen
It restores a complete experimental career while treating sexism, credit, collaboration, and data access more accurately than either the forgotten assistant or stolen-discovery legend.
A question to keep
How did Franklin's insistence on precise experimental evidence advance molecular science, and why was her contribution remembered so unevenly?
Chapters
- Sixty-Two Hours of Exposure
- Education Against Expectations
- Coal in Wartime
- Learning Crystallography in Paris
- King's: Assignment and Miscommunication
- A-DNA, B-DNA, and Water
- Who Saw Which Data
- Three Papers in Nature
- Viruses at Birkbeck
- A Career Larger Than Photograph 51