In the early 1950s, the race to discover DNA was on. At Cambridge University, graduate student Francis Crick and research fellow James Watson (b. 1928) had become interested, impressed especially ...

But James Watson and Francis Crick's claim was a valid one, for they had in fact discovered the structure of DNA, the chemical that encodes instructions for building and replicating almost all ...

What did the duo actually discover? Many people believe that American biologist James Watson and English physicist Francis Crick discovered DNA in the 1950s. In reality, this is not the case.

Only one year after Hershey and Chase performed these experiments, James Watson and Francis Crick determined the three-dimensional structure of DNA. This discovery enabled investigators to put ...

James Watson ... New York. Watson enjoyed rubbing elbows with the luminaries of the time and began a lifelong relationship with CSHL. Working with Francis Crick. Watson's ambition was to be ...

Francis Crick and James Watson with a model of the DNA molecule At midday on 28 February 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson walked into The Eagle pub in Cambridge and announced “We have ...

Francis Crick ... thought Crick was much too talkative. However, a young American scientist was eager to engage in such discussions, and, fortunately for Crick, James Watson was also interested ...

Erwin Chargaff's groundbreaking research, which showed that DNA base pairs had a complementary relationship, laid the foundation for James Watson's and Francis Crick's DNA model. When word spread that ...

within living cells is undisputed" (Watson & Crick, 1953). This opening sentence of James Watson and Francis Crick's second major paper, published shortly after the announcement of their proposed ...

In 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson first described the molecular structure of DNA, which they called a "double helix," in the journal Nature. For this breakthrough discovery, Watson ...

James Watson, Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins each played a key role in the understanding of DNA and genetic illness. The discovery of DNA’s structure was significant in ...

The "third man." Although Maurice Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with James Watson and Francis Crick, his name is not as commonly known as one of the discoverers of ...