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Remembering Rosalind Franklin: Rosalind Franklin & the Discovery of the Double Helix Structure of DNA

Tanya Lee Stone

Illustrator: Gretchen Ellen Powers

Ages: 9+

Published: 2024

Publisher: Christy Ottaviano Books/Little, Brown/Hachette

ISBN: 978-0-316-35124-9

Keywords: Biography/Memoir-Women molecular biologists, DNA; History, biography

A brilliant young woman who loved to solve problems unlocked the secret to DNA, but was never given credit for it during her lifetime. Delicate watercolors. Notes, sources.