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 ...

Thirteen Nobel Prize winners gathered at UNESCO headquarters in Paris for a symposium to mark the fortieth anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA. Francis Crick and James Watson, who in ...

"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 ...