Before Watson and Crick basked in Nobel glory, before The Double Helix mythologized their genius, there was the photo. Photo 51 — crisp, clear, and groundbreaking — captured by Dr. Rosalind Franklin, ...

Watson and Crick were working on modeling DNA's shape at Cambridge University. Meanwhile, Franklin — an expert in X-ray imaging — was studying the molecules at King's College in London, along ...

After seeing Photograph 51, Watson and Francis Crick were handed an informal report containing Rosalind’s analyses, without permission, which were also significant for confirming the structure ...

Franklin’s experiments, in which she successfully used X-ray crystallography to create images of DNA, became the basis for James Watson and Francis Crick’s groundbreaking 1953 discovery of the ...

Determining the role that Rosalind Franklin played in the discovery of the structure of DNA remains a contentious issue. Lamentably, ... (including Dr. Watson and Dr. Crick) ...

Watson and Crick won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962, jointly with Maurice Wilkins, Franklin’s former colleague. Franklin didn't share the podium; she had died of ovarian cancer four years ...

The discovery of DNA's double helix structure 70 years ago opened up a world of new science -- and also sparked disputes over who contributed what and who deserves credit.

James Watson and Francis Crick, two scientists who later won a Nobel Prize for their research on DNA, are said to have stolen data from the chemist Rosalind Franklin that played a key role in ...

Watson and Crick did properly state in a paper published in 1954 that Franklin's photograph played an important role in elucidating the double helix structure of DNA.