Book to Art

Meet to discuss Her Hidden Genius by Marie Benedict and share art. Devoted scientist Rosalind Franklin is more at home in the lab than in social circles. After years of research in Paris, she joins a London university, where her precise and independent nature causes friction with her male colleagues. When she begins studying the structure of DNA, she becomes consumed, and is convinced that one more perfect X-ray image could reveal its secret. Her meticulous research leads to a groundbreaking discovery—the double-helix structure—captured in a photograph that will change science forever. And though her brilliance helped uncover the very foundation of human life, Rosalind’s role in the discovery remains largely obscured.