The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick and the Discovery of DNA’s Double Helix Howard Markel. Norton, $30 (608p) ISBN 978-1-324-00223-9 ...

On Oct. 18, 1962, James D. Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were honored with the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for determining the double-helix molecular structure of DNA.

James Watson, PhD, half of the Watson and [Francis] Crick duo credited for discovering DNA isn't as keen on the precision medicine Cancer Moonshot initiative as many other scientists and ...

The structure of DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, was discovered in 1953 by Ms. Crick's husband, Francis Crick, and James Watson. The breakthrough laid the foundation for molecular biology by making ...

Francis Crick, who helped discover the double helix shape of DNA along with James Watson, has died at the age of 88, his family said on Thursday. Crick died at Thornton Hospital in San Diego where ...

In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double ...

Passage: Francis Crick, 88Crick helped discover the double-helix shape of DNA along with James Watson, and won the Nobel Prize for his work on DNA's structure, which he studied in 1953 along with ...

I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood.” James Watson’s mischievous opening line of The Double Helix raised many eyebrows at the time, but even Crick wouldn’t quarrel with it now ...

Francis Crick, who with James Watson discovered the spiral, “double-helix” structure of DNA, has died at the age of 88.

Sixty-six years ago, James Watson and Francis Crick burst into The Eagle pub in Cambridge, England, with the latter proclaiming that the pair had “discovered the secret of life.” About a ...

Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the double-helical structure of DNA with James Watson, has sold his scientific archive to Britain's Wellcome Trust for just under £2 million (US$2.8 million).

WORCESTER — When the 1962 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology was awarded to James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins in 1962, Rosalind Franklin had been dead for four years. Her work ...