In Pictures: The race to discover the secrets of DNA

Photos and letters show how James Watson and Francis Crick raced to uncover the double helix structure of DNA.

The DNA Helix Changed How We Thought About Ourselves

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...
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Photo of the double-helical structure of a section of DNA, discovered by James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, who announced their discovery in the journal Nature ...

Photo of the double-helical structure of a section of DNA, discovered by James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, who announced their discovery in the journal Nature, 25 April 1953 ...

James Watson: Controversial discoverer of 'the secret of life'

In February 1953, two men walked into a pub in Cambridge and announced they had found "the secret of life". It was not an ...
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Scientist who unraveled the code of life dies at 97

Watson, along with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, received the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for revealing ...