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Her Hidden Genius
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Dec 30, 2021
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Doctor Rosalind Franklin has a brilliant mind, an eye for picking up details that others miss and she’s determined to unearth the secrets of DNA. In 1947, she starts working in Paris, and here she’s treated as an equal for the first time in her professional career.
Her parents start to pressuring Rosalind to return to England, after her heart is broken and she returns home. Her wealthy parents are Jewish, they believe in giving back to the community and they do through their philanthropy.
Rosalind has to deal with men being chauvinistic at her new job at Kings College, they don’t use her proper title, they call her names, she’s not invited to their boy’s club lunches, and her office isn’t secure. Three men are determined to make her life difficult, she constantly has arguments with them and their names are Maurice Wilkins, James Watson and Francis Crick. Rosalind and her assistant Raymond Gosling, do very through research and take thousands of photographs using x-ray diffraction techniques and x-ray crystallography, they discover sample “A” which is wet and sample “B” which is a dry crystalline, and their sure it's the double helix structure of DNA.
Rosalind starts working at Birkbeck College, she misses Ray and his name will included in any of her future scientific publications. In 1956, Rosalind has her annual medical check-up, after years of battling stereotypes, discrimination, her ideas been picked apart and stolen, and Rosalind Franklin’s given the devastating news.
Her Hidden Genius by Marie Benedict, looks at the extraordinary life of Doctor Rosalind Franklin, a woman who excelled in physics, chemistry and was a brilliant scientist at a time when it was a male dominated field. She overcome so many challenges and setbacks in her life and you do wonder if she exposed herself to too much radiation and underestimated the damage it could do to her own health.
I received a copy of this book from Edelweiss and Sourcebooks in exchange for an honest review, Rosalind Franklin’s the perfect role model and inspiration for young girls who have an interest in STEM and five stars from me.
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Her parents start to pressuring Rosalind to return to England, after her heart is broken and she returns home. Her wealthy parents are Jewish, they believe in giving back to the community and they do through their philanthropy.
Rosalind has to deal with men being chauvinistic at her new job at Kings College, they don’t use her proper title, they call her names, she’s not invited to their boy’s club lunches, and her office isn’t secure. Three men are determined to make her life difficult, she constantly has arguments with them and their names are Maurice Wilkins, James Watson and Francis Crick. Rosalind and her assistant Raymond Gosling, do very through research and take thousands of photographs using x-ray diffraction techniques and x-ray crystallography, they discover sample “A” which is wet and sample “B” which is a dry crystalline, and their sure it's the double helix structure of DNA.
Rosalind starts working at Birkbeck College, she misses Ray and his name will included in any of her future scientific publications. In 1956, Rosalind has her annual medical check-up, after years of battling stereotypes, discrimination, her ideas been picked apart and stolen, and Rosalind Franklin’s given the devastating news.
Her Hidden Genius by Marie Benedict, looks at the extraordinary life of Doctor Rosalind Franklin, a woman who excelled in physics, chemistry and was a brilliant scientist at a time when it was a male dominated field. She overcome so many challenges and setbacks in her life and you do wonder if she exposed herself to too much radiation and underestimated the damage it could do to her own health.
I received a copy of this book from Edelweiss and Sourcebooks in exchange for an honest review, Rosalind Franklin’s the perfect role model and inspiration for young girls who have an interest in STEM and five stars from me.
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July 21, 2021
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July 21, 2021
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Dec 30, 2021 11:19PM
Glad to see you enjoyed this Karren - it's next on my reading list!
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Carolyn wrote: "Glad to see you enjoyed this Karren - it's next on my reading list!"I hope you like it as well Carolyn.
What a wonderful book To interest girls in STEM. I love seeing women get their rightful due. I wonder how many other women where pioneers in their field and denied recognition. Very nice review!
Cathy wrote: "What a wonderful book To interest girls in STEM. I love seeing women get their rightful due. I wonder how many other women where pioneers in their field and denied recognition. Very nice review!"Cathy a lot of women didn't received the recognition they deserved and had their idea's stolen by men.
Karren, glad you loved this one. I did, too and actually begged for a copy. I was rejected by NetGalley, but then in the mail was sent the book and 3 ARC’s books + Lindt Chocolate. ☺️ I was really surprised, not sure if maybe it was meant for someone else. I loved this book, too. Incredible Story.
Kristine wrote: "Karren, glad you loved this one. I did, too and actually begged for a copy. I was rejected by NetGalley, but then in the mail was sent the book and 3 ARC’s books + Lindt Chocolate. ☺️ I was really ..."Kristine it must have been fate, four books and some chocolate :)
Karren wrote: "Kristine wrote: "Karren, glad you loved this one. I did, too and actually begged for a copy. I was rejected by NetGalley, but then in the mail was sent the book and 3 ARC’s books + Lindt Chocolate...."Yes 💕
