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August 23, 2005
The Secret of Photo 51
October 20, 2005
Lindsay Young Auditorium, Hodges Library, 1st Floor
5:30 Meet & Greet (light refreshments)
6:00 Film
7:00 Discussion and Info Exchange (Present your own blog or website)
7:30 Library Q&A and Consultations with the Life Sciences Librarian
About the Film [PBS website]
"On April 25, 1953, the science journal Nature announced that James Watson and Francis Crick had discovered the double helix structure of DNA, the molecule that is fundamental to life. But absent from most accounts of their Nobel Prize-winning work is the contribution made by a scientist—molecular biologist and crystallographer Rosalind Franklin—who would never know that Watson and Crick had seen a key piece of her data without her permission and that it would lead them to the double helix."
"Ironically, her role in one of the most important discoveries in the history of science was hidden even from her, since she never knew that Photo 51 sparked the final insight that led to the solution of the double helix."
Websites about Rosalind Franklin:
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Contributions of 20th Century Women
Articles about Franklin:
The Twisted Road to the Double Helix, Scientific American
Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentus Discoveries, National Academies Press
Rosalind Franklin and the Double Helix, Physics Today
Light on a Dark Lady, Trends in Biochemical Sciences
Books about Franklin:
Rosalind Franklin : the dark lady of DNA / Brenda Maddox
Hodges Library / Stacks: QH506.F72 M33 2002
Rosalind Franklin and DNA / Anne Sayre
Hodges Library / Stacks: QP26.F68 S29 1975
Notable women in the life sciences : a biographical dictionary / edited by Benjamin F. Shearer and Barbara S. Shearer
Hodges Reference / Reference: QH26 .N68 1996
Listen to an interview about Rosalind Franklin on NPR.
Posted by Donna Braquet at August 23, 2005 09:49 PM