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Photograph 51
Author: Anna Ziegler
Narrator: Matthew Arkin
Unabridged: 1 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works
Published: 12/15/2011
Category: Drama - American
Synopsis
Rosalind Franklin was a gifted research scientist who was part of the race to uncover the secrets of DNA in the 1950s. Her more famous contemporaries Watson and Krick took all the kudos for the discovery of the molecules double helix structure yet it was Franklins skill with X-ray diffraction that first uncovered whats called the secret of life.
Includes an interview with Brenda Maddox, the world's foremost biographer of Rosalind Franklin and author of "Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA".
Also includes and interview with Dr Pamela Bjrkman, the Max Delbruck Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology, and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
Miriam Margolyes as Rosalind
Matthew Arkin as Caspar
Maxwell Caulfield as Wilkins
Jon Matthews as Watson
Darren Richardson as Gosling
Nick Toren as Crick
Directed by Michael Hackett. Recorded at the Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.
Photograph 51 is part of L.A. Theatre Works Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.