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• - Short profile with links to related figures.
  
• - Portrait, short biography, quotations from three of her letters, and several evaluations of her work and character by others.
  
• - Biographer Brenda Maddox writes that Rosalind Franklin was no cardboard cutout. Includes Franklin's famous X-ray photograph of DNA. Framed HTML or PDF. [Nature]
  
• - Short biography with portrait.
  
• - Rosalind E. Franklin and R.G. Gosling present an analysis of data from X-ray crystallography which indicates differences between the A and B structures of DNA. 577K PDF. [Nature]
  
• - Biography of the researcher who used x-ray diffraction to determine the structure of DNA.
  
• - Short biography by Bobbi L. Gribble, with links to related topics.
  
• - Profile of her scientific contributions. Includes publications, honors, and related links.
  
• - Short biography with related links.
  
• - Biographical profile of the chemist.
  
• - Full-length review of Brenda Maddox's book "Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA." [Scientific American]
  
• - Chapter on the talented and hardworking physical chemist. Searchable page images.
  
• - In-depth, positive review of Brenda Maddox's "Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA." [The New Yorker]
  
• - Cautious article by Rosalind E. Franklin and R.G. Gosling says that the X-ray of the B form of nucleic acid fibres "shows in striking manner the features characteristic of helical structures." 333K PDF. [Nature]
  
• - Short biography, for kids.
  
• - Howard Berkes talks with Brenda Maddox about her book. In RealAudio format, from National Public Radio.
  
• - Biographical "snapshot" of the physical chemist.
  
• - Short biography of a scientist whose contributions were not acknowledged.
  
• - Short biographical article.
  
• - Biography of the researcher whose work on DNA was at first unacknowledged, and, ironically, later brought to light in reaction to the insulting treatment by Nobel winner James Watson. Includes her diffraction photograph 51 of DNA. [Physics Today]
  
• - Background information on program on Rosalind Franklin's role in the discovery of the double helix. Article by Brenda Maddox, video clip, interview of biology professor. [NOVA]