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By Brenda Maddox. 380 pp., illustrated. New York, HarperCollins, 2002. $29.95. ISBN 0-06-018407-8.

This biography illuminates one of the most mysterious protagonists in a fascinating story of fibers, photographs, and feelings, in which biology is revolutionized with the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA. Rosalind Franklin, Maddox's "dark lady of DNA," comes out of the shadows in a captivating three-part biography that chronicles a London childhood, studies at Cambridge University, mountaineering, and research in Paris; the discovery of the double helix; and success as a research team leader and international scientific acclaim, brought to an untimely end in 1958 by her death from ovarian cancer.

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