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1 Which scientific discovery was key to cracking the DNA code?

2 What is x-ray crystallography and why is it important?

3 Who was J T Randall and why was a biophysics unit founded at King’s?

4 Who is Maurice Wilkins?

5 What was it really like to be in the Biophysics Research Unit at King’s?

6 Who was Alexander Stokes (1919–2003)?

7 Who is Raymond Gosling?

8 What did the first images of DNA look like?

9 What did a condom and a paperclip have to do with the history of DNA?

10 What cameras were used?

11 What did Signer’s DNA look like?

12 Who was Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958)?

13 What is the structure of DNA?

14 What did the key images look like?

15 Who is Herbert Wilson?

16 What does human DNA and that of other creatures look like?

17 What did the workshop look like?

18 What did the articles in Nature say?

19 Why wasn’t there more press coverage in 1953?

20 How much clearer did the image get?

21 Why wasn’t Franklin awarded a Nobel Prize?