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- 1Photograph 49 holds the key to Franklin's famous DNA Photograph 51▼Photograph 49 is the key to understanding Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51
A new historical article argues that Photograph 49, another of Rosalind Franklin's X-ray diffraction images taken in her King's College London lab, is essential to correctly interpreting her celebrated Photograph 51 of DNA. The piece revisits how Franklin's crystallographic work underpinned the discovery of the double helix, and how the fame of a single image has distorted the story of her contribution.
- 2Historians Reexamine Rosalind Franklin's Famous DNA Photograph 51●Photograph 49 is the Key to Understanding the History of Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51 Open Access (says Springe
A new open-access paper published by Springer argues that Photograph 49 is key to understanding the history of Photograph 51, the famous X-ray image of DNA associated with Rosalind Franklin. The authors contend that Franklin's colleagues and later commentators overlooked her original reason for creating the strikingly clear image, reshaping how her role in the discovery of DNA's structure is understood.