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Watson and Crick found that if they paired double ringed nucleotides with a single-ringed nucleotides, the bases fit like a puzzle CHACHACHACHACHA
Rosalind Franklin's work with x-ray diffraction revealed the double helix structure of DNA.
X-ray diffraction studies by Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins.
The helical nature was discovered by Rosalind Franklin and Watson and Crick first built the model of it.
Rosalind Elsie Franklin had a student working in the DNA - pioneers team. Franklin decided to join her student at work, later taking x-ray diffraction images and discovering the true scructure of DNA. But mainly... Franklin was a microbiologist and also studied chemistry, and under those topics comes molecules & DNA.
Watson and Crick found that if they paired double ringed nucleotides with a single-ringed nucleotides, the bases fit like a puzzle CHACHACHACHACHA
Rosalind Franklin's work with x-ray diffraction revealed the double helix structure of DNA.
X-ray diffraction studies by Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins.
The helical nature was discovered by Rosalind Franklin and Watson and Crick first built the model of it.
James Watson and Francis Crick not only discovered the double helix, but they built the first model too. Although they are sometimes solely accredited for the discovery, they received substantial help from Rosalind Franklin, whose X-ray crystallography images were vital to the discovery.
With the help of Rosalind Franklin, Watson and Crick built a tin model of a DNA molecule that helped scientists better understand the structure of DNA.
James Watson (L) and Francis Crick (R),and the model they built of the structure of DNA.
Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 - 16 April 1958) was a British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer who made critical contributions to the understanding of the fine molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite. Franklin is best known for her work on the X-ray diffraction images of DNA which led to the discovery of the DNA double helix.
Rosalind Elsie Franklin had a student working in the DNA - pioneers team. Franklin decided to join her student at work, later taking x-ray diffraction images and discovering the true scructure of DNA. But mainly... Franklin was a microbiologist and also studied chemistry, and under those topics comes molecules & DNA.
Watson and Crick built their Nobel-prize winning model of DNA at the Cavendish Lab at Cambridge. However, the experimental data they used was done at King's College. Both of these universities are in Britain. Right now, Watson is the director of the Cold Spring Harbor lab in New York. This lab also has a history in famous genetics research. It was the site of the Hershey-Chase experiment and Barbara Mclintock's research. If you need more info, you should check out Watson's book, The Double Helix. Another good resource is Brenda Maddox's biography of Rosalind Franklin.
Her X-ray diffraction picture of the structure and her precise measurements were very helpful in the final model built by Watson and Crick. If she had lived she most likely would have won a Nobel prize for this work.
Rosalind Franklin actually was the first person to get a clear picture of DNA. she did alot of studies about it at Kings College. A fellow collegue Maurice Wilkins gave the picture of the DNA also know as photo 51 to Francis Crick and James Watson over at Cambridge University. It was through this photo and information that they were able to create the first DNA structure also known as the double helix.