James Watson & Francis Crick; It took an ex-physicist and a former ornithology student — along with some unwitting help from a competitor — to crack the secret of life;

Watson and Crick describe structure of DNA; 1953;; Photo: Model of DNA molecule ... Watson and Crick took a crucial conceptual step, suggesting the molecule was made of two chains of nucleotides,

Before Watson and Crick by Brenda Maddox ... Before Watson and Crick; Brenda Maddox on how scientists came to focus on DNA as the secret of life.

The Watson-Crick Model ... Note that about the only characteristic in common with the Watson-Crick model is "twining." The differences include three strands instead of two, the sugar-phosphate

The Watsoncrombie Reference Collection presents the story of Watson and Crick and their discovery of the DNA double helix. ... But whatever their aims, Watson and Crick shared an attraction to DNA,

James Watson and Francis Crick, 1959  © Crick and Watson, together with Maurice Wilkins, won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of the structure of DNA.

(10) Alongside the Watson-Crick paper in the April 25, 1953, issue of Nature were separately published papers by scientists Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin of King’s College,

Aware of these profound implications, Watson and Crick were obsessed with the problem—and, perhaps more than any other scientists, they were determined to find the answer first.

Modern molecular genetics grew out of the work of James Watson and Francis Crick in Cambridge in the early 1950s. Using x-ray diffraction and information about molecular structure derived...

The honours that have to come to Watson include: the John Collins Warren Prize of the Massachusetts General Hospital, with Crick in 1959; the Eli Lilly Award in Biochemistry in the same year;