Epic X-ray Crystalographer, and Dr. Franklin paid with her health and life to discover all that she did. She knew the xray exposure was harming her, but was so driven by her need to discover, for the good of humanity, to continue her work to it’s conclusion. Science Superhero!!

"Watson’s slight took hold partly because Franklin’s lab notes, usually thorough and meticulous, say little about photograph 51. But in a paper published today in the Journal of the History of Biology, Sponsel and Sutton draw attention to the earlier image, photograph 49, showing she made extensive notes about it despite a cosmetic defect. She recognized it suggested a helical structure and used it to calculate, for the first time, the length of each turn in the spiral—34 angstroms—and the number of bases “per turn of helix (if there is a helix).”

Photograph 49 is the Key to Understanding the History of Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10739-026-09866-7