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Despite Franklin's work, Wilkins earned his Nobel

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In this anniversary year of the publication of the classic paper proposing the double-helical structure for DNA (see http://www.nature.com/nature/dna50), renewed attention has been drawn to the respective roles of Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins in this ground-breaking discovery: see for example Watson Fuller's Commentary “Who said 'helix'?” (Nature 424, 876–878; 2003).

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