Franklin created famed ‘Photo 51’ after calculating key features of DNA’s helix from an earlier image, study reveals

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- "Photo 51" was a cleaner version of an earlier X-ray image, "Photo 49," that Rosalind Franklin had already used to calculate key features of DNA, challenging long-held assumptions about her role in the discovery of the double helix.