It is the famous lightbulb-going-off story every school kid learns: How James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA, cementing their place in scientific history. But as William ...

In 1962, scientists James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the double helix structure of DNA. However, it has long been believed that the ...

Nobel laureate Francis Crick, who along with James Watson uncovered the "double helix" spiral structure of DNA, died Wednesday at age 88. In 1953, the pair announced they had determined the structure ...

One of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century was also the scientific heist of the century, according to this action-packed history. Historian Markel (The Kelloggs) recreates the 1953 ...

ON 25 April 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick, working in a small Medical Research Council unit in the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, published a short letter in Nature. It described a remarkable ...

Rosalind Franklin’s role in the discovery of the structure of DNA may have been different than previously believed. Franklin wasn’t the victim of data theft at the hands of James Watson and Francis ...

In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick announced that the shape of DNA was a double helix. This monumental discovery of the structure of DNA empowered generations of scientists to unlock many ...