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may 29, 1952 - 1952 Rosalind Franklin

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Franklin captured amazing x-ray photographs of crystallized DNA ribres. Her work showed that phosphates were located on the outside of the structure and that DNA was likely helical in shape. This discovery furthered the race to discover DNAs shape.

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may 29, 1952
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~ 73 years ago

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