Insight into the race for the Nobel Prize

This Guardian Article goes into detail about the story of the discovery of DNA.  Apparently, Franklin arrived at many of the same conclusions as Watson and Crick and while the latter duo did not technically "steal" data, (her data was available if they'd asked her directly) they did use Franklin's data in a "cavalier manner" and without proper credit.  Apparently, they would have arrived at the x-ray data earlier, had Watson bothered to pay attention during a Franklin lecture:

R. Franklin, photo from The Guardian