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If you are looking for the name of the person who actually discovered, and photographed, the double helix configuration of the DNA molecule, for which Mr. Watson and Mr. Crick took total credit, it was Rosalind Franklin who received no credit whatsoever.

She was shunned once again when the Nobel Foundation, in 1962, handed awards to the two "discoverers" as well as British colleague, Maurice Wilkins, but omitted her because, according to them, they do not bestow awards posthumously - this despite the fact that her discovery was, by that time, universally known within the scientific community.

Experimental proof of the discovery was later provided by American biochemist, Arthur Kornberg.

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