James Watson on X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin

Photograph 51, the famous X-ray diffraction image of DNA taken by X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling in 1952, was a key piece of data that lead to James Watson and Francis Crick’s discovery of DNA’s structure. Franklin’s colleague Maurice Wilkins showed Watson the photograph without her permission. On February 28, 1953, Watson and Crick […]

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