IN FEBRUARY 1953, after five weeks of intense work, Francis Crick (pictured) and James Watson solved one of biology’s most fundamental puzzles: the structure of DNA. Their discovery—the double ...
Francis Crick missed a crucial seminar in 1951, probably because he was seeing a lover. James Watson did go, failed to take notes and misremembered key details. As a result, their first model of DNA ...
SAN DIEGO -- Nobel Prize-winning scientist Francis Crick, who co-discovered the spiral, "double-helix" structure of DNA in 1953 and opened the way for everything from gene-spliced crops and medicines ...