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Much of the controversy comes from a central idea: that James Watson and Francis Crick — the first to figure out DNA’s shape — stole data from another scientist named Rosalind Franklin.

“We should be thinking of Rosalind Franklin, not as the victim of DNA, but as an equal contributor and collaborator to the structure,” Dr. Comfort said. Other experts said that the new ...

Rosalind Franklin’s role in the discovery of the structure of DNA may have been different than previously believed. Franklin wasn’t the victim of data theft at the hands of James Watson and ...

Rosalind Franklin, a scientist at the University of London, had already documented the helical nature of DNA when Watson and ...

A piece that aired on NPR this week about the discovery of DNA's structure neglected to mention the significant contribution of Rosalind Franklin to that scientific milestone. And now some ...

As has been well-documented, a third person contributed to the discovery — the chemist Rosalind Franklin. In January 1953, Franklin was getting ready to leave King’s College. Her colleague ...

And is Rosalind Franklin sacrificing what we live and what we experience in order to find that biological matter?” To heighten the choices that Franklin has to make in the musical, Myers turned ...

Re “Essay Extends Debate Over DNA Discovery” (Science Times, May 2): Determining the role that Rosalind Franklin played in the discovery of the structure of DNA remains a contentious issue.

Regarding “Rosalind Franklin’s Nobel” (Letters, May 5): While James Watson et al. were awarded a 1962 Nobel Prize for the discovery of DNA, key team member Franklin was omitted. While this ...

Rosalind Franklin is known for making a significant contribution to the discovery of the DNA double helix. In recent years, her story has become famous as one of a woman whose scientific work was ...

Watson and Crick, whose breakthrough earned them the 1962 Nobel Prize, couldn’t have done it without Rosalind Franklin, a brilliant, headstrong X-ray crystallographer at King’s College ...