Many people believe that American biologist James Watson and English physicist ... double-helical model for the structure of DNA. Watson and Crick's discovery was also made possible by recent ...

Victor McElheny has written a brilliant life story of James Watson, coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA by Watson and Francis Crick. The story of the ...

At Cambridge University, graduate student Francis Crick and research fellow James Watson (b ... that it was almost immediately accepted. DNA's discovery has been called the most important ...

But James Watson and Francis Crick's claim was a ... Despite her contribution to the discovery of DNA's helical structure, Rosalind Franklin was not named a prize winner: She had died of cancer ...

Francis Crick and James Watson with a model of the DNA molecule ... discovered the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. This discovery changed the world of science and medicine forever.

Welcome to This Day in History! Today, we dive into the remarkable events that have taken place on February 28th throughout ...

But Miescher’s name doesn’t enjoy that much global fame. It was only 75 years after Miescher’s discovery that Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarthy would demonstrate, in 1944, that DNA was ...

[REUTERS/YONHAP] Watson, Crick and the overshadowed Franklin The discovery of DNA’s double-helix structure is often credited to two scientists — James Watson and Francis Crick. These ...