Who Discovered the Double Helix?
The Noble Prize in physiology or medicine in 1962 went to physicist Francis Crick, molecular biologist James Watson, and biophysicist Maurice Wilkins for deciphering the structure of DNA.
But the full story includes critical work by another research scientist.
X-ray crystallography performed in the 1950s by Rosalind Franklin began to show DNA's twisting molecular structure. Wilkins, Franklin's former research partner, provided Crick and Watson with copies of her images, which, combined with their research, revealed the architecture of DNA.
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The Noble Prize in physiology or medicine in 1962 went to physicist Francis Crick, molecular biologist James Watson, and biophysicist Maurice Wilkins for deciphering the structure of DNA.
But the full story includes critical work by another research scientist.
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