gnostek1 / 3Side and top view of A-, B-, and Z-DNA conformations.
- 01Franklin died in 1958 at age 37 of ovarian cancer; Nobel rules bar posthumous awards, so she was never eligible.
- 02Watson admitted in his 1968 memoir that seeing Photo 51 was the moment the structure became clear to him.
- 03Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel with Watson and Crick; Franklin's name appears nowhere in the prize citation.