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Watson, Crick & Franklin: The Double Helix
The 1953 race to DNA's structure: Franklin and Gosling's Photo 51, Wilkins sharing it, Chargaff's rules, Watson and Crick's model-building, the base-pairing insight, the 1962 Nobel, and the long debate over Franklin's credit.
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Prereqs: Mendel; cells. Next: Doudna & CRISPR. Sources: Brenda Maddox, *Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA* (2002); Watson, *The Double Helix* (1968); Cobb & Comfort, 'What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed' (*Nature*, 2023); HHMI BioInteractive.Next: 1. The race