Rosalind Franklin's X-ray images allowed James Watson and Francis Crick to decipher DNA's double-helix shape, before the pair told a Cambridge pub: 'We have discovered the secret of life'.

Watson, Crick and Wilkins won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1962 for the finding. Franklin, a chemist and X-ray crystallographer, died of ovarian cancer before the prize was awarded ...

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 ...

In February 1953, a jubilant Francis Crick walked into this Grade II listed building and proclaimed he and James Watson had "found the secret of life".

Much of the controversy comes from a central idea: that James Watson and Francis Crick — the first to figure out DNA's shape — stole data from a scientist named Rosalind Franklin.

Watson, Crick and Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962. Franklin had died in 1958 and, despite her key experimental work, the prize could not be received posthumously.