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Who instructed Raymond Gosling to hand over a high-quality image of "B" form DNA to Wilkins?
James Watson
Francis Crick
Sir John Randall
Rosalind Franklin
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Sir John Randall was a physicist and the director of the Medical Research Council's Unit for Molecular Biology, where Francis Crick and James Watson worked. Randall instructed Raymond Gosling to hand over a high-quality image of "B" form DNA to Wilkins, who was a colleague at the King's College London. This image was later used by Watson and Crick to determine the structure of DNA.
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