Rosalind Franklin was a gifted analysis scientist who was simply area of the race to discover the secrets of DNA in the 1950’s. Her more popular contemporaries Watson and Krick took all the kudos for the finding of the molecule’s double helix framework – yet it had been Franklin’s skill with X-ray diffraction that initial uncovered what’s known as “the magic formula of life”.

Includes an interview with Brenda Maddox, the world’s foremost biographer of Rosalind Franklin and author of “Rosalind Franklin: The Dark about Picture 51 Lady of DNA”.

Also contains and interview with Dr Pamela Björkman, the Utmost Delbruck Professor of Biology in the California Institute of Technology, and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

An L.A. Theater Works full-cast overall performance featuring:

Miriam Margolyes as Rosalind

Matthew Arkin as Caspar

Maxwell Caulfield simply because Wilkins

Jon Matthews while Watson

Darren Richardson as Gosling

Nick Toren seeing that Crick

Directed by Michael Hackett. Documented at the Unseen Studios, Western Hollywood.

Photo 51 is section of L.A. Theater Works’ Relativity Series offering science-themed plays. Main funding for the Relativity Series is supplied by the Alfred P. Sloan Basis to enhance public understanding of technology and technology in today’s world.