Webmaster's Notes:
1. Further details about Rosalind Franklin's work can be found on the World Wide Web:

At the American Institute of Physics project on 'Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics' ( described in the last issue of 'Crystallography News' June 97 page 17 ) the URL is: http://cwp.libary.ucla.edu/~cwp/
A recent TV program on BBC2 'Local Heroes' presented by Adam Hart-Davis was concerned with heroines in London: Elizabeth Dakin worked on the chemistry of coffee, Mary Waller studied the properties of sound and vibrations and Rosalind Franklin.The web site had a useful biography of Rosalind Franklin. sadly removed by 2013

2. The National Portrait Gallery ' and The Royal Society with support from COPUS prepared a free leaflet 'Science and the Portrait' for visitors to the Gallery, St. Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE tel: (0171)306 0055. It is a trail round the portraits of scientists in the Gallery included a photograph of Rosalind Franklin.

3. There is a 'blue plaque' on the house where she lived in 'Donovan Court, Drayton Gardens, LONDON SW7'

4. There have been many books written about the discovery of the double helix here are a few.

1968 The Double Helix James D. Watson an easy to read account of how this research was done by one of the scientists involved, written from a personal viewpoint, to be read by the general public, to try to show something of the reality of scientific research. It is an exciting read, but not always strictly accurate.
1975 Rosalind Franklin and DNA Anne Sayre pub. W.W.Norton, New York ISBN 0-393-00868-1. gives further insight into the work on which the discovery of the double helix was based and Rosalind Franklin's life, written by her friend Anne Sayre trying to correct some of the statements made in Watson's book.
1979 The Eighth Day of Creation. Makers of the Revolution in Biology Horace Freeland Judson Pub. Jonathan Cape; Penguin 1995. A dramatic historical narrative of the early days of structural molecular biology.
1989 What Mad Pursuit. A personal view of scientific discovery Francis Crick pub Weidebfeld and Nicholson 1979 now available in Penguin. An alternate view of the research involved.
1985 In search of the double helix: Darwin, DNA and beyond" John Gribbin Pub. Wildwood, now Corgi ISBN 0-552-12656-X a popular account for the general reader of the background to these dscoveries has a useful 12 page bibliography of books on these topics.
1994 The path to the Double Helix: the Discovery of DNA Robert Olby Pub. originally 1974 University of Washington Press, now Dover ISBN 0-486-68117-3 (suggested by Judith Murray-Rust )
2002 Rosalind Franklin the dark lady of DNA Brenda Maddox pub 2002 Harper Collins ISBN 0 00 257 1498 Ł20 400pages

Other publications can be found on our page of links celebrating the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA.