Status Updates From Rosalind Franklin: The Dark...

“Girls, for Watson, were equal to genes as objects of supreme curiosity. He appraised her against his standard of feminine beauty — Hedy Lamarr, the French ‘popsies’ studying English at Cambridge language schools, and his sister Elizabeth — and found her wanting.”

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That she should have been so clear in her intention suggests that by the age of sixteen, if not sooner, Rosalind had realised what Albert Einstein had gradually learned about himself: that a scientist makes science “the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way the peace and security which he cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.”