This paper explains that Brenda Maddox writes in "Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA" that Franklin, who died in 1958
at the age of thirty-seven, just five years after her discovery through startling photos of x-rays of the double helix of DNA, was never given the same acknowledgement as men were given. The author points out that Maddox used extensive
research including primary and secondary sources from a great number of areas in the United States and Great Britain and many lectures, notes and articles from the scientist herself to back up her story. The paper stresses that Maddox tends to write as if she was
writing a novel rather than a biography by describing the characters vividly, using personal information to make them seem real and animated to the reader.