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Science 8 November 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5596, pp. 1177 - 1178
DOI: 10.1126/science.1078331
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
Gender and Science in the DNA Story

A review by Anne Fausto-Sterling

Rosalind Franklin
Dark Lady of DNA
Brenda Maddox
HarperCollins, London and New York, 2002. 400 pp. £20. ISBN 0-00-257149-8. $29.95, C$44.95. ISBN 0-06-018407-8.

Maddox provides a detailed and nu-anced biography of the researcher whose x-ray diffraction photograph of DNA was crucial to the determination of the mole-cule's structure.
The author is in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Biochemistry, Box G, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA. E-mail: anne_fausto-sterling{at}brown.edu

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