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Analysis of Rosalind Franklin’s notes challenges claims she missed photograph 51’s significance

Science reports that the analysis examines Franklin’s notes on an earlier x-ray image made with the same DNA sample.

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Science reports that a new analysis of Rosalind Franklin’s notes challenges the longstanding suggestion that she missed the significance of photograph 51. The notes concern another x-ray image Franklin made just days earlier using the same DNA sample. James Watson’s 1968 memoir implied that the insight prompted by photograph 51 was his alone; Franklin died in 1958 and could not challenge his account.

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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51

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@NewsfromScienceExclusive: “The instant I saw the picture my mouth fell open and my pulse began to race.” So wrote James Watson in The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, his controversial account of how he and Francis Crick deciphered the structure of DNA in 1953. The image, now known as photograph 51, showed an elegant, symmetrical pattern of spots formed by x-rays diffracted from strands of DNA—the fingerprint of the molecule’s helical structure. Rosalind Franklin, an x-ray crystallographer, had produced the image in the spring of 1952. But Watson’s 1968 book, amid other slights and sexist language directed at Franklin, implied the flash of insight was his alone. Popular accounts still routinely suggest Franklin missed the significance of the photo. She never had a chance to challenge Watson’s dismissive narrative; she died of cancer in 1958, a decade before his memoir was released and became a bestseller. But a new analysis of her notes on another x-ray image, which she made just days earlier using the same DNA sample, offers a firm rebuttal. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4s7yQsV1h
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    @NewsfromScienceExclusive: “The instant I saw the picture my mouth fell open and my pulse began to race.” So wrote James Watson in The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, his controversial account of how he and Francis Crick deciphered the structure of DNA in 1953. The image, now known as photograph 51, showed an elegant, symmetrical pattern of spots formed by x-rays diffracted from strands of DNA—the fingerprint of the molecule’s helical structure. Rosalind Franklin, an x-ray crystallographer, had produced the image in the spring of 1952. But Watson’s 1968 book, amid other slights and sexist language directed at Franklin, implied the flash of insight was his alone. Popular accounts still routinely suggest Franklin missed the significance of the photo. She never had a chance to challenge Watson’s dismissive narrative; she died of cancer in 1958, a decade before his memoir was released and became a bestseller. But a new analysis of her notes on another x-ray image, which she made just days earlier using the same DNA sample, offers a firm rebuttal. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4s7yQsV1h
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