This is simply a false rewriting of history through a feminist grievance lens. She may have taken the picture, but it was Francis Crick’s mathematical sophistication and knowledge of Bessel functions that allowed him to recognize that this image implied a specific helical symmetry, something that escaped Franklin and Wilkins.
Dude, the REAL blueprint for DNA?
Rosalind Franklin’s Photo 51, her X-ray diffraction image that her colleague Maurice Wilkins sneaked to James Watson behind her back.
Zero credit in the 1953 paper. She died at 37 from cancer and watched from the grave as the boys grabbed the 1962 Nobel.
RIP to Watson, but history owes Franklin most of the credit.