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ON WRITING A PLAY ABOUT SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS

How Do You Bring Science to the Stage?
The impact of human frailties on the process of scientific discovery
Lab's Labour's Lost
Had Franklin been less excluded and patronised by her male peers, might she have had the feedback and confidence to solve the structure first?
Rosalind Franklin and Photograph 51
"...science is ...made even more complex and difficult by being carried out by real people with conflicting personalities, virtues and flaws..."

Flaws and Forgiveness
Anna Ziegler was "...drawn to the complications and contradictions of Rosalind Franklin's character, to the way that she was her own greatest obstacle"

The Female Scientist, the Biggest Secret
Theatre review which observes the playwright's ""...refusal to soften the woman at its center"
Women in Science: Weird Sisters?
"Watson was far from alone in believing that it is impossible to be both a normal woman and a first-class scientist..."
Learning From History
A conversation about the challenges women faced in science
Rosalind Franklin’s groundbreaking work was left out of DNA discovery story
All she got was sniping about her looks from the men who got the credit