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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

"Once I had the sentence 'I never saw Francis Crick in a modest mood,' I knew that I'd be able to stick it through to the end." That was how James ... of the DNA molecule. Watson, who was a ...

Life itself. Francis Crick was fascinated by life. How did life begin? What is the inherent difference between living beings and inanimate objects? What is the nature of consciousness? Crick ...

Francis Crick. A name we're all familiar with for his work with DNA. In keeping with the spirit of the architectonic, Crick has branched out beyond his original field of study. Crick has done some ...

The two men, Francis Crick and James Watson, soared above her: in 1962, four years after Franklin's premature death at the age of 37, Watson and Crick were awarded the Nobel Prize along with Maurice ...