Photo 51 refers to an image of
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Photo 51 was an X-ray diffraction pattern of DNA, obtained by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling in 1952 at King’s College London. This image was crucial in determining the double helix structure of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick.