Photograph 51 Audiobook (Free)

Rosalind Franklin was a gifted research scientist who was simply area of the competition to discover the secrets of DNA in the 1950’s. Her even more well-known contemporaries Watson and Krick had taken all of the kudos for the breakthrough from the molecule’s double helix framework – yet it had been Franklin’s skill with X-ray diffraction that initial uncovered what’s called “the secret of lifestyle”.

Includes an interview with Brenda Maddox, the world’s foremost biographer of Rosalind Franklin and author of “Rosalind Franklin: The Dark about Picture 51 Woman of DNA”.

Also contains and interview with Dr Pamela Björkman, the Max Delbruck Professor of Biology on the California Institute of Technology, and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

An L.A. Theater Works full-cast efficiency featuring:

Miriam Margolyes while Rosalind

Matthew Arkin as Caspar

Maxwell Caulfield as Wilkins

Jon Matthews seeing that Watson

Darren Richardson simply because Gosling

Nick Toren as Crick

Directed by Michael Hackett. Documented at the Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.

Photograph 51 is element of L.A. Theater Functions’ Relativity Series offering science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is usually provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance general public understanding of research and technology in the modern world.