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

Instead, she collaborated and shared data with Watson, Crick and Maurice Wilkins. Seventy years ago, a trio of scientific papers announcing the discovery of DNA’s double helix was published.

Was it unethical for Wilkins to show Franklin’s photo to Watson and Crick? Franklin had not left King’s College yet. For Wilkins to share the image while Franklin was still working on DNA was ...

Wilkins was frustrated. In January, 1953, he showed Franklin's results to Watson, apparently without her knowledge or consent. Crick later admitted, "I'm afraid we always used to adopt -- let's ...

Four years later, Watson, Crick and Wilkins received a Nobel prize for their work on DNA's structure. Franklin wasn't included in that honor. Posthumous Nobel prizes have always been extremely ...

In 1962, Watson, Crick and Maurice Wilkins, Franklin’s collaborator, were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of DNA’s structure. However, Nobel Prizes are not awarded posthumously, ...

When Watson and Crick solved the DNA structure, they arranged with Randall that they, Wilkins and Franklin, would all publish their results in the same issue of Nature. Watson and Crick could not have ...

He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962 along with James Watson and Francis Crick for what is considered one of the most important discoveries in human history. Wilkins devised an X ...