Anne Sayre was an American writer well known for her biography of Rosalind Franklin, one of the discoverers of the structure of DNA.
20 Facts About Anne Sayre
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Anne Sayre was married to an American crystallographer David Sayre.
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Anne Sayre achieved her lifelong educational ambition of getting a law degree in her early 50s.
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Anne Sayre ultimately became justice of the local court in Head of the Harbor, New York.
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Anne Sayre was a lifelong friend of Franklin, who played a key role in the discovery of the chemical structure of DNA.
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Anne Sayre was "born on a train passing through Milwaukee".
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Anne Sayre spent her childhood in Woodmere, New York, and was educated at Radcliffe College.
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Anne Sayre took the job for only a few months, but she met her future husband, David Sayre.
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Anne Sayre soon took up a writing career, mainly of short stories, of which many were included in the Foley's and the Best American Short Stories collections.
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In 1949, they moved to England as David Anne Sayre was enrolled for a DPhil at the University of Oxford to work under Dorothy Hodgkin.
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Anne Sayre financially supported most of their financial expenses through her writings.
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Anne Sayre eventually got appointed as an editor at the Oxford University Press.
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Anne Sayre devoted her service in legal matters, particularly concerning environment, in Long Island.
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Anne Sayre initially served as volunteer Legal Aid lawyer in Riverhead.
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Anne Sayre died on March 13,1998, in a hospital near her home in Bridgewater Township, New Jersey, and was survived by her husband.
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Anne Sayre first met Rosalind Franklin in 1949 at Laboratoire Central des Services Chimiques de l'Etat in Paris, where Franklin was working, and when she and her husband was visiting.
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Anne Sayre stayed with Franklin at the hospital and looked after Franklin's apartment.
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When Franklin was discharged from hospital, Anne Sayre nursed her in a rented cottage for some days.
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Anne Sayre called The Double Helix as "every known prejudice against intellectual women".
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Anne Sayre quickly started researching for materials, and after five years, she published Rosalind Franklin and DNA in 1975, which she claimed not as a biography, but as a protest to Watson's.