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Who are Watson and Crick? |
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they are credited with discoering that DNA is a double helix
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James Watson and Francis Crick are credited with being the first to discover the di-basic double helix structure of (B form) DNA (published in Nature in 1953) at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University.
Important
in their discovery were unpublished X-ray diffraction images of DNA
created by Rosalind Franklin at Kings College, London shown to them by
her collegue Maurice Wilkins.
They won the Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1962 jointly with Maurice Wilkins (sadly, Rosalind Franklin had died of cancer in 1958 and thus was not eligble for the prize).
James Watson is still working and Francis Crick died in 2004
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