Figure 3

The diffraction photograph of the B form of DNA taken by Rosalind Franklin in May 1952 was by far the best photograph of its kind. Data derived from this photograph were instrumental in allowing James Watson and Francis Crick to construct their Nobel Prize­winning model for DNA. (Courtesy of the Norman Collection on the History of Molecular Biology in Novato, Calif.)

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