At King's College in London, Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins were studying DNA. Wilkins and Franklin used X-ray diffraction as their main tool -- beaming X-rays through the molecule yielded ...

In turn, this pattern of arrangement ultimately ... when scientist Rosalind Franklin used a process called X-ray diffraction to capture images of DNA molecules (Figure 5). Although the black ...

Scientists who study molecular structures have known this ever since James Watson saw Photo 51 and went on to deduce DNA's structure ... X-rays to produce patterns of diffraction.

X-ray diffraction image of the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, taken by Raymond Gosling when working for Rosalind Franklin on the structure of DNA, referred to as "Photo 51".

This X-ray diffraction picture of a DNA molecule was Watson's inspiration (the pattern was clearly a helix). Using Franklin's photograph and their own data, Watson and Crick created their famous ...