Top Shelf Reads: Book Discussion

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This program is being offered remotely via Zoom. The Zoom link will be included in the registration confirmation email and reminder email sent 48 hours before the event.

This month we will be discussing Her Hidden Genius by Maria Benedict. Copies of the book are available for check out at the Information Desk at both FCL locations.

Synopsis:

Rosalind Franklin has always been an outsider―brilliant, but different. Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at a university in London, she feels closest to the science, those unchanging laws of physics and chemistry that guide her experiments. When she is assigned to work on DNA, she believes she can unearth its secrets.

Rosalind knows if she just takes one more X-ray picture―one more after thousands―she can unlock the building blocks of life. Never again will she have to listen to her colleagues complain about her, especially Maurice Wilkins who'd rather conspire about genetics with James Watson and Francis Crick than work alongside her.

Then it finally happens―the double helix structure of DNA reveals itself to her with perfect clarity. But what unfolds next, Rosalind could have never predicted.