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...Watson and Crick are told to back off the DNA project. They send the molds for their models to Wilkins and Franklin in London...
...Franklin takes her famous X-ray image of DNA in its B form...
...Franklin and Wilkins have a formal falling out. The lab's director assigns Wilkins to work with the B form of DNA and Franklin to concentrate on the A form...
...Watson goes to London to tell Wilkins and Franklin about Pauling's mistake. Wilkins shows Watson Franklin's best image of the B form, which strongly suggests a double helix...
...Rosalind Franklin? The story of her life is short, tragically so, but it doesn't lack for tellers. Was she difficult Rosy, the Cruella De Vil of The Double Helix, who nearly knocked Watson's block off? Was she Dr. R.E. Franklin, the humble supporting player whom Watson and Crick thanked in the second-to-last sentence of their famous article in Nature? Or was she Franklin the feminist icon, the tormented genius who was cheated out of biochemistry's ultimate prize...