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  • Stop Writing Rosalind Franklin Out of the DNA Discovery

    I only spotted this 2026[1] paper this evening. And I believe that it dismantles some persistent misapprehensions about her research. Rosalind Franklin recognised the helical structure of DNA’s B form and calculated key dimensions in May 1952, months before James Watson even saw the photograph he made famous. The familiar story that she produced the…