On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They ...
Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died.
The co-discoverer of the structure of DNA helped to strengthen a US research institute and wrote a classic textbook, but also ...
The breakthrough did not come until 1953, when Watson visited Wilkins at King’s College in London, and Wilkins showed him a ...