DNA's discovery has been called the most important biological work of the last 100 years, and the field it opened may be the scientific frontier for the next 100. By 1962, when Watson, Crick,

Taken in 1952, this image is the first X-ray picture of DNA, which led to the discovery of its molecular structure by Watson and Crick.

In an article by Stephen Hall in 1993 about the fortieth anniversary of the discovery of DNA, Watson was quoted as saying, "[Franklin] would have been famous for having found DNA if she'd just...

The Discovery of DNA - a photo finish. ... With the discovery of the structure of DNA solved, the question of who gets the credit arises.

James Watson and Francis Crick, crackers of the DNA code, in 1959 ... But whatever their aims, Watson and Crick shared an attraction to DNA, and when they wound up in the same University of Cambridge

Most everybody knows that DNA contains the blueprint for life. The names of Watson and Crick, ... It would be about 75 years before the magnitude of Miescher's discovery would be fully understood.

were some of the only scientists working on the structure of DNA, at that time, many scientists before them had contributed important breakthrough discoveries in DNA function which led up to...

Discovery of DNA as the Hereditary Material using Streptococcus pneumoniae ... Watson and Crick's discovery of DNA structure in 1953 revealed a possible mechanism for DNA replication. So why didn

In James Watson's account of the discovery of the structure of DNA, entitled The Double Helix, Rosalind Franklin was depicted inaccurately as an underling of Maurice Wilkins at King's College.

More than any other modern scientific discovery, DNA fingerprinting raises crucial issues about balancing the use of technology to help society against an individual's right to privacy.