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 ...

Based on this information, Watson and Crick made a failed model. It caused the head of their unit to tell them to stop DNA research. But the subject just kept coming up. Franklin, working mostly ...

In fact, Watson and Crick were worried that they would be "scooped" by Pauling, who proposed a different model for the three-dimensional structure of DNA just months before they did. In the end ...

McElheny adroitly describes this journey toward the structure of DNA and its culmination in the famous Watson-Crick model on February 28, 1953. Since this discovery, after which most scientists ...

From the diffraction patterns obtained, Astbury tried building a model of DNA. With metal plates and rods, he put together a Meccano-like model suggesting how DNA's components—bases, sugars ...

Crick and Watson had been trying to build models of DNA with sticks and balls and did not see how Pauling’s theory would lead ...

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 ...

Comparison of a single-stranded RNA and a double-stranded DNA with their corresponding nucleobases. (Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC SA 3.0) The most common type of base pairing is the Watson-Crick base ...

The two connect immediately when Crick states that he believes that the genetic code is contained in DNA, not protein—a theory with which Watson also staunchly agrees. The two decide to team up to ...

A blue plaque at the pub marks their discovery, made possible because of the contribution of Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, who were studying DNA using X-rays. In 1962 Crick and Watson ...

Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA—that molecular blueprint for life—over 70 years ago. Today, scientists are still uncovering new ways to read it.