Everybody who wants to favor Rosalind Franklin thinks that Watson and Crick were kind of sexist pigs who stole her data. The first bit of that description is probably accurate. The second bit isn’t.

Scientist Rosalind Franklin discovered the double helix structure of DNA. ... (In 1953, Watson and Crick published a paper in Nature on DNA's structure that was based on both X-rays and models.) ...

Watson and Crick were working on modeling DNA’s shape at Cambridge University. Meanwhile, Franklin — an expert in X-ray imaging — was studying the molecules at King’s College in London ...

Rosalind Franklin’s contribution to discovering the structure of life’s genetic material rarely receives more mention than a ...

On April 25, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published a landmark paper in Nature, proposing the double helix as the long elusive structure of DNA, a discovery that a decade later earned the ...

Rosalind Franklin, a scientist at the University of London, had already documented the helical nature of DNA when Watson and Crick accessed her unpublished data without permission and used it to ...

Watson and Crick describe structure of DNA 1953 Photo: Model of DNA molecule. ... Meanwhile at King's College in London, Maurice Wilkins (b. 1916) and Rosalind Franklin were also studying DNA.

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'.

In 1962, scientists James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the double helix structure of DNA. However, it has long been believed that ...

In an opinion piece published Tuesday, April 25, 2023, in the journal Nature, two historians are suggesting that while James Watson and Francis Crick did rely on research from Rosalind Franklin ...

The discovery of DNA's double helix structure 70 years ago opened up a world of new science -- and also sparked disputes over who contributed what and who deserves credit.