Her Hidden Genius

In this episode, we discuss Her Hidden Genius . It's the new book by Marie Benedict, a lawyer and best-selling author who unearths the historical stories of women who have left important legacies. In this her third book about a female scientist, Benedict chronicles the life of Rosalind Franklin, an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer who laboured for years to uncover the structure of DNA but whose research was secretly shared with two male scientists from a different institution – the famous Watson and Crick. They used her data to claim the discovery of DNA's structure and ultimately win a Nobel prize for it, after Franklin died from cancer at just 37 year old.

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Her Hidden Genius is an episode from Chemistry World Book Club by Chemistry World.

This episode is 19:01 long.

This episode was published on Jan 18, 2022.

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