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.

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 ...

Reconstruction of the double helix model of DNA, using some of the original metal plates, by Francis Crick and James Watson, England, 1953; In 1953, the British and American molecular biologists ...

Rosalind Franklin, a scientist at the University of London, had already documented the helical nature of DNA when Watson and Crick accessed her unpublished data without permission and used it to ...

Watson and Crick's discovery of DNA structure in 1953 revealed a possible mechanism for DNA replication. So why didn't Meselson and Stahl finally explain this mechanism until 1958 ...

The film stars Jeff Goldblum as Watson and Tim Pigott-Smith as Crick, who are working at Cambridge to understand the structure of DNA before their competitors, Maurice Wilkins(Alan Howard) and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Pope Emeritus Benedict stepped down from the papacy, making him the first one to take such a step in six centuries. This ...