Interesting discussion on the real story behind the elucidation of the structure of DNA
Textbooks attribute this to Watson and Crick. For a long time, at least since I was in school, Rosalind Franklin was credit as having produced some of the foundational data used to finalize the W&C model, and in recent years the narrative has formed that attitudes of the time towards women in science meant that Franklin’s discovery and scientific credit was stolen from her. This review of primary historical documents gives a much more nuanced take.
Science if full of examples of people producing data that has big implications in areas other than the scientist if exploring and so needs someone else to pick it up and flesh out those implications. This appears to be at the heart of the Franklin DNA story. Her data was useful but not critical to W&C, and her area of focus meant she was unlikely to ever use it to develop the double helix model W&C eventually published.