For heaven's sake!

Franklin had the experimental data but didn't know how to interpret it. She sat with the data for a year and had no intention of elucidating its significance. Wilkins gave the data to Watson, an informal procedure that was especially common in the post-war science community.

Their crime was to undervalue her empirical contributions to their discovery. They would have solved the damned structure without Franklin's data. They had other empirical confirmations, some dating to the late 40's.

They deserve flak, or at least Watson does, for undervaluing her contributions. But Crick was an incredible scientist, who founded molecular biology by explicating the central dogma and determining how information flows during gene expression.