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...Watson attends Maurice Wilkins' lecture on X-ray crystal-lography...
...Franklin takes her famous X-ray image of DNA in its B form...
...Franklin returned from Paris to study nucleic acids at King's College in London, where she produced the clearest X-ray images of crystallized DNA that anyone had ever obtained. She discovered and photographed the hydrated B form of DNA, and she established, crucially, that DNA's structure depended on an external backbone, with the bases on the inside. But here the stories diverge. According to The Double Helix, Franklin was unable to interpret her images properly and was unwilling to share them with others, to a point where Watson and Crick were forced to go around...
...with a man, and Caspar might well have become her first--but fate intervened. In the summer of 1956, Franklin felt a stabbing pain in her abdomen. It was ovarian cancer, which was well advanced. It was almost certainly the price she paid for having worked so closely with X-ray radiation earlier in her career. She died on April...
...were lucky, but we did deserve it, for a number of reasons. First, we thought it was the most important problem around. Others didn't realize that. Second, most people thought it couldn't be solved by building models--they thought you needed to get the answer primarily from X-ray crystallography of DNA. Rosalind Franklin's made that mistake. But we said, "It worked for Linus Pauling when he solved the structure of the alpha helix, so why not for us?" Third, we had each other. It helps to have someone else to take over the thinking when...