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Photograph 49 offers new insight into Franklin's famous DNA Photograph 51

Original: Photograph 49 is the key to understanding Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51

A new historical article argues that Photograph 49, another X-ray diffraction image taken in Rosalind Franklin's lab, is the key to fully understanding the famous Photograph 51 of DNA. Readers are debating how the two images relate and what this means for the standard account of how the structure of DNA was deciphered.

Why now: Fresh scholarship reframing the well-known story of DNA's discovery is drawing attention among science and history readers.

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