Had to read this book to help out one of my students that I tutor. Photograph 51 is a play written by Anna Ziegler. It is an interesting read in that it tells a story about scientist, Dr. Rosalind Franklin, who assisted in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.Whether it is completely biographical, I do not know, but I found the character of Rosalind somewhat cold and annoying; although it did depict her focus and determination. I also liked the way she shrugged off the way the

I did not realize that this was the audio version of a play. I thought it was an audio drama. It concerns the work of a forgotten female chemist Rosalind Franklin and her photographic work on the search for DNA. The cast was wonderful, but I had a difficult time with this work. She comes off as such a bitch, it's hard to feel any sympathy for her. Despite the usual things a woman had to deal with in the earlier eras, her attitude and personality ensured she would have few friends or achieve heig...

Anna Ziegler's Photograph 51, an exploration of the life of British scientist, Rosalind Franklin, who nearly beat James Watkins and Francis Crick to the solution of DNA's structure, is a study of ego, drive, hubris, connection and isolation, told with fascinating tension and anticipation. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this play and would find a production thrilling, suspenseful, and engaging, based solely on how Ziegler has shaped the characters and the events of the play. Ziegler's dialogue is w...

I heard about this play from my General Biology class, and how it details the drama behind Watson and Crick's diagramming of the DNA molecule at the cost of Franklin's credit (and health). This is an interesting and unique play that gives personality to the scientists behind the ground-breaking discovery, as well as it shows how competitive the scientific research field can be.

"Photograph 51"By Anna ZieglerPerformed by: Matthew Arkin, Maxwell Caulfield, Miriam Margolyes, Jon Matthews, Darren Richardson, Nick TorenLength: 1 hr and 58 minsRelease date: 11-22-11Publisher: L.A. Theatre WorksOnce again I become cultured for a couple of hours and attend a live play production.  Okay, this one is in the mind thanks to the audio productions of L.A. Theatre Works.  LATW's releases of theatrical performances in audiobook format are pure genius and a delight to hear.  The perfor...

Apparently this play shows how Rosalind Franklin was cheated out the Nobel Prize by conspiracy, theft and sexism with a dash of antisemitism. In reality she wasn't, and thankfully the play doesn't say that either.It's not that Franklin wasn't treated badly at times, both by her scientific contemporaries and posterity, but she was partly the architect of her own misfortune. Besides, this is a play, and any historical fiction has to compromise historical fact for character and narrative. As long a...

This play explores the life of Dr. Rosalind Franklin, the English scientist whose work was instrumental in the discovery of DNA. In particular, her photographs revealed the helix. She was a brilliant but prickly collaborator and had a troubled relationship with the male scientists who went on to win the Nobel Prize. The play was not only entertaining but it made me want to know more about Franklin’s life. The current pandemic has forced theaters to become even more creative. Fortunately, for bot...

This play is the story of Rosalind Franklin who was the first person to discover the DNA double helix but is not given credit for it. She is a funny, very sarcastic, interesting person who does not suffer the rude men around her. I'd love to see this on the stage; so much of the overlapping dialogue going on in different settings was lost when reading it.

This is a new addition to the VCAA English reading list which I enjoyed. However as with most plays, the optimum way being to experience them, it would have been better to see a performance in the theatre. The premise of the brilliant mind of a woman overshadowed by the perception that men have been responsible for great leaps forward in a number of areas of the sciences is well articulated. Coincidentally, I viewed the film Hidden Figures not long after reading the play. Perhaps the fact that t...

( Format : Audiobook ) "We're here to start again." This is an Audible Original recording of the two hour play performed at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, with various actors including Anna Chiumsky as Rosalind Franklin.Franklin died, aged only 37, from ovarian cancer. Her brilliantly innovative photography was central to the modelling of the double helix, deciphering the structure of DNA, in the mid twentieth century. Yet she received no recognition for this when the Nobel prize were handed...

A two-hour adaptation of a stage play about British scientist Rosalind Franklin, free to download by Audible members as of January 2021. Includes at 12-minute interview with the play's director.I listened mid-pandemic, making bean soup. The production was good enough to make me miss seeing live theater. It reminded me particularly of the type of theater I saw when living in London in the 1980's, by which I mean, talky, but in a good way.I believe that audio productions of this and other stage pl...

This was an audible original book. I enjoyed the voice actors very much, except for the one so-called American who kept exaggerating his Rrrrrs. That got to be annoying. But the story itself was good, and a huge step up for women in science, as it is a true story. Thank you to those of you who put this all together!

I loved this book. Loved. The authentic ache of being a female in an era where that wasn’t considered, frequently, to be equal... a book that wasn’t just one dimensional but revealed intricacies of relationships, a book that could be both regarding science and relationships... so well written and so interesting.

Rosalind Franklin was one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century. This play about how she was bilked out of her share of the credit for the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA was both sad and moving in places. She died of cancer so young and long before she finally got the credit she deserved. I enjoyed the part where she thinks about naming her tumors Watson and Crick.

Find the listening version on Soundcloud, it’s fantastic. A lovely play that set out to tell the feminist focussed history of an often overlooked female scientist, but then chose to have her have a romantic subplot? That seemed an odd choice, the domineering and outgoing characterisation of Watson and Crick was really well done, but left Rosalind harder to relate to. A must read for anyone interested in the development of our understanding of the ‘key to life’ DNA and the process of great scient...

Absolutely fantastic! I listened to the audio version, available for free if your library participates in hoopla. This very short book tells the story of how Franklin, Wilkins, Crick, and Watson discovered the structure of DNA. Each scene provides banter, sometimes funny, sometimes sad or informative, from the small cast of characters. Nicole Kidman is playing Franklin in Photograph 51 in England. I hope someone decides to carry out a production in NYC. I would love to see this on a stage. In th...

This was a fun read and could be quite lively on the stage. I would lean heavily on "this is a work of fiction" if I produced it, as I don't think the romance was real, nor was her relationship with Watson and Crick as distant as portrayed. And while Franklin did not get the credit she deserved, this play is as much about who gets to tell the story as it is about the lack of acknowledgement.

Interesting dramatization of a fascinating piece of history. The play wasn't completely historically accurate, but it did a great job of showing how Franklin's work (and Gosling's, for that matter) failed to be recognized as critical to the understanding of DNA. It's interesting to note that the instance in which Wilkins and Watson commiserated after Watson argued with Franklin--the incident in which Wilkins showed Watson Photograph 51--was something that really happened, though perhaps not exac...

"It’s the loneliest pursuit in the world. Science. Because there either are answers or there aren’t. There either is a landscape that stretches before you or there isn’t. And when there isn’t, when you’re left in the darkness of an empty city at night, you have only yourself." Es muy raro que disfrute de cosas que tengo que leer para la facultad, but this play was surprisingly good? Me gusta la trama, los personajes y hasta el final. Truly fascinating.¿El audiolibro? GOD. Fue una full

The story of Rosalyn Franklin makes me furious, because of what was taken from her. But this play seems somewhat pointless, it didnt feel very profound, luckily it was short and easy to read.