Gosling was re-assigned to [[Rosalind Franklin]] when she joined Wilkins' group in 1951. For the next two years, they worked closely together to improve the X-ray diffraction photography of DNA and get a sharper image. Gosling made the X-ray diffraction image of DNA known as "Photo 51".<ref name="nature12806">{{cite journal |url=http://www.nature.com/news/due-credit-1.12806 |title=Due credit |journal=Nature |volume=496 |page=270 |date= 2013 |issue=7445 |doi=10.1038/496270a|pmid=23607133 }}</ref> This work led directly to the 1963 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] being awarded to [[Francis Crick]], [[James D. Watson]] and [[Maurice Wilkins]]. Gosling was the co-author with Franklin of one of the three DNA double helix papers published in ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' in April 1953.<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Franklin R.E. & Gosling R.G. 1953 | doi = 10.1038/171740a0 | title = Molecular configuration in sodium thymonucleate | url = https://archive.org/details/sim_nature-uk_1953-04-25_171_4356/page/740 | journal = Nature | year = 1953 | volume = 171 | issue = 4356 | pages = 740–741 | pmid = 13054694| pmc = | bibcode = 1953Natur.171..740F | s2cid = 4268222 }}</ref> | Gosling was re-assigned to [[Rosalind Franklin]] when she joined Wilkins' group in 1951. For the next two years, they worked closely together to improve the X-ray diffraction photography of DNA and get a sharper image. Gosling made the X-ray diffraction image of DNA known as "Photo 51".<ref name="nature12806">{{cite journal |url=http://www.nature.com/news/due-credit-1.12806 |title=Due credit |journal=Nature |volume=496 |page=270 |date= 2013 |issue=7445 |doi=10.1038/496270a|pmid=23607133 }}</ref> This work led directly to the 1963 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] being awarded to [[Francis Crick]], [[James D. Watson]] and [[Maurice Wilkins]]. Gosling was the co-author with Franklin of one of the three DNA double helix papers published in ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' in April 1953.<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Franklin R.E. & Gosling R.G. 1953 | doi = 10.1038/171740a0 | title = Molecular configuration in sodium thymonucleate | url = https://archive.org/details/sim_nature-uk_1953-04-25_171_4356/page/740 | journal = Nature | year = 1953 | volume = 171 | issue = 4356 | pages = 740–741 | pmid = 13054694| pmc = | bibcode = 1953Natur.171..740F | s2cid = 4268222 }}</ref> |