{"id":269,"date":"2003-04-19T15:48:23","date_gmt":"2003-04-19T15:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2003\/04\/rosalind_frankl\/"},"modified":"2003-04-19T15:48:23","modified_gmt":"2003-04-19T15:48:23","slug":"rosalind_frankl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/rosalind_frankl\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was a wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0006552110\">book<\/a>, that I&#8217;ve been looking forward to since it came out in hardback last year. I was a bit uncertain when I realised that the author, Brenda Maddox, publishes a new book every couple of years (her biog of Maggie Thatcher has just been published), but I needn&#8217;t have worried.<br \/>\nNext week Life Story is repeated on BBC4 after a new documentary following this book. I&#8217;d also be curious to read the much maligned James Watson book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140268774\">The Double Helix<\/a>, in which he talks so dismissively of &#8220;Rosy&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a wonderful book, that I&#8217;ve been looking forward to since it came out in hardback last year. I was a bit uncertain when I realised that the author, Brenda Maddox, publishes a new book every couple of years (her biog of Maggie Thatcher has just been published), but I needn&#8217;t have worried. Next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}