The landmark ideas of Watson and Crick relied heavily on the work of other scientists. What did the duo actually discover? Many people believe that American biologist James Watson and English ...

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 ...

(Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC SA 3.0) The most common type of base pairing is the Watson-Crick base pair, named after James Watson and Francis Crick, who first proposed the double helix structure of ...

Instead, his mind wandered to the structure of another molecule, DNA. Enter Watson. Crick was more of a theorist than an experimentalist, and most of his contributions to science were the result ...

Watson will share the $49,656 prize with Francis H. C. Crick, his co-worker in 1953, and with Maurice H. F. Wllkins, whose X-ray studies of DNA made possible the famous Watson-Crick model of the ...

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 D. Watson, professor of Biochemistry and ...

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 ...