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Watson and Crick solved DNA's double helix structure in 1953 using Franklin's X-ray data without her knowledge. Crick shouted 'the secret of life' in a Cambridge pub. The full story is complicated.

Rosalind Franklin's life, discoveries, and verified quirks: Photo 51, refusal to marry, death at 37, and how her X-ray crystallography work was used without her knowledge.

DNA was discovered in 1869, but nobody knew what it did. Working out its role and structure took 84 more years, and the story is more collaborative, and more complicated, than the famous version.