The first photographic evidence of this shape was obtained in 1952, when scientist Rosalind Franklin used a process called X-ray diffraction to capture images of DNA molecules (Figure 5).

Unknown to Franklin, Watson and Crick saw some of her unpublished data, including the beautiful "photo 51," shown to Watson by Wilkins. This X-ray diffraction picture of a DNA molecule was Watson ...

This would play a role in the coming years as the race unfolded to find the structure of DNA. Franklin made marked advances in x-ray diffraction techniques with DNA. She adjusted her equipment to ...

This would play a role in the coming years as the race unfolded to find the structure of DNA. Franklin made marked advances in x-ray diffraction techniques with DNA. She adjusted her equipment to ...

Is Rosalind Franklin a ghost that still haunts the history of genomic science? Alan Booth looks into her remarkable story ...

Franklin’s crucial role in the discovery of DNA’s structure hinged on her ... enables the visualization of molecular shapes through diffraction patterns. She had already documented the helical ...

The King's team took an experimental approach, looking particularly at x-ray diffraction images of DNA. In 1951, Watson attended a lecture by Franklin on her work to date. She had found that DNA ...

He handed over a sublimely crisp X-ray diffraction photographs of DNA taken by Dr. Franklin, which provided the Aha moment –without which Watson wouldn’t have gotten far, and certainly not as fast as ...

A previously overlooked letter and a news article that was never published, both written in 1953, add to other lines of evidence showing Rosalind Franklin was an equal contributor — not a victim — in ...

Scientists worked out the structure of DNA in the 1950s. In 1951 Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin, both working at King's College, London, were using X-ray diffraction to study DNA.