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Rosalind Franklin at a microscope
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. CC BY-SA 4.0.

1953

DNA

Scientists showed that DNA is a twisted ladder.

Rosalind Franklin's X-ray picture helped them see the shape.

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