Those findings led to Watson and Crick's conclusion, which paved the way for decades of DNA discoveries.
Ever since Watson and Crick first elucidated the structure of DNA in 1953, medical science has made enormous strides in understanding the basic biological mechanisms of disease.
He had been in university when Watson and Crick exposed the double helix and the first synthetic hormones were being produced, so he knew there was more exciting research going on in other parts of the world.
Ever since Watson and Crick first described DNA, genetic research was built around what was known as "the central dogma"--genes, written in the DNA, were recipes for proteins, which in turn interacted with one another to form the working guts of living organisms.
Watson and Francis Crick's description of DNA's double-helix structure, and in computing, with Jack Kilby's and Bob Noyce's independent inventions of the integrated circuit.
In 2003, Mr. Hwang celebrated the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick.
Although its authors have now far eclipsed Mr Miller in fame, few then would have noticed the names James Watson and Francis Crick.
Her image of a double helix provided the crucial evidence James Watson and Francis Crick needed to complete their model, but neither scientist acknowledged her work when they received the Nobel Prize in 1962.
It will be exactly 60 years ago in February that James Watson and Francis Crick famously burst into the pub next to their Cambridge laboratory to announce the discovery of the "secret of life".
Biologist James Watson and physicist Francis Crick realized our DNA molecules form a three-dimensional double helix in 1953.
Here Isaac Newton theorised, Darwin pondered, Crick and Watson discovered DNA and Stephen Hawking hypothesised.
It was Crick and Watson from Cambridge who published the key paper in 1953 and they later shared the Nobel prize with Wilkins from Kings.
's "I Have a Dream" speech, a photograph, a copy of Francis Crick and James Watson's famous "double helix" scientific paper from 1953 and Shakespeare's 154 sonnets.
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Crick's and Watson's groundbreaking work was published in the journal Nature on 25 April 1953.
Crick, along with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins, was given the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for "discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".
In the seven-page letter Crick told how he and James Watson found the copying mechanism "by which life comes from life".
Crick was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine along with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins.
Crick, who died in 2004 at age 88, was awarded the Nobel Prize along with Watson and Maurice Wilkins.
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