Odile Crick, 86, an artist who made the first widely published sketch of the double-helix structure of DNA, died July 5 at her home in La Jolla, Calif. She had cancer. Her husband, Francis H.C ...

Based on this information, Watson and Crick made a failed model. It caused the head of their unit to tell them to stop DNA research. But the subject just kept coming up.

If you, like most others, are under the impression that Watson and Crick discovered DNA, you have plenty of company, but you all happen to be wrong. Watson and Crick's 1953 paper, where they solved ...

The next morning Watson and Crick raced to their lab and started model building. A far simpler answer than they had anticipated emerged: The helix contained two intertwined strands of DNA ...

Many people have been outraged by accounts that Watson and Crick used Franklin’s unpublished data without her knowledge or consent in making their model of DNA’s molecular structure. What’s ...

Watson and Crick had difficulty with their first attempts to build a DNA model. Neither man had a degree in chemistry, so they used standard chemistry texts to cut out cardboard models of chemical ...

William Brangham: But in the book, Markel tells how Watson's and Crick's discovery was based in part on the work of a researcher named Rosalind Franklin and how Franklin's contribution was ...

The discovery. Inspired by the model making of Linus Pauling, Watson and Crick began making a model of DNA structure. Their first attempt was a failure. The errors in their structure were obvious ...

James Watson, 85, worked with Francis Crick to figure out that DNA, the molecule of life, has a double helix structure.

A month later they had a model that fitted the X-ray data closely. From it, they worked out the profound “Watson-Crick hypothesis,” which explains how the DNA molecule does its work in the cell.

Watson’s 1968 best seller “The Double Helix” told how he and Crick used bits of wire, colored beads, sheet metal and cardboard cutouts to construct a 3-D model of the molecule.