This is such brilliant news to read! The work of Rosalind Franklin, and other brilliant #WomeninSTEM (especially those overlooked by history), is one of the reasons Tamara Krinsky and I started our science in entertainment team, Scirens. Seeing this inspiring story move from the stage to the screen (and during this challenging time for science) gives me so much joy. Thank you Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and doron weber for the work you do in supporting science in entertainment.
Pleased to share that Oscar winner Natalie Portman is set to star as pioneering scientist Rosalind Franklin in Photograph 51, helmed by The King’s Speech director Tom Hooper. Anna Ziegler, who wrote the original script for the play of the same name, is set to adapt the screenplay. The theater production of Photograph 51 was supported by Sloan as a Mainstage Production at Ensemble Studio Theater in 2010 and went on to the West End in London with Nicole Kidman as Franklin. A British chemist and x-ray crystallographer, today Rosalind Franklin is best known for her contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA, though her work was not adequately appreciated during her lifetime. The film will follow her life and work as a scientist, a woman and a Jew as well as her rivalry with Watson and Crick, who famously shared a Nobel Prize with Franklin's lab partner Maurice Wilkins without crediting Franklin who had died at 37. https://lnkd.in/ezFq5bmu
