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Watson and Crick

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  1. The two twentieth-century biologists (James D. Watson of the United States and Francis H. C. Crick of England) who discovered the double helix of DNA.


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Watson and Crick found Franklin "hostile" and thought she jealously guarded her research and worked in isolation.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025

Eventually, Watson and Crick made up and by the time the Englishman died in 2004, they were again the boon pals they’d been 50 years earlier.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

In a molecule of DNA, nucleotides form base pairs with a unique molecular geometry called Watson and Crick geometry, named for the scientists who discovered the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953.

From Science Daily • Dec. 13, 2023

Franklin provided essential quantitative data on the structure in a report she shared with a colleague, who shared it with Watson and Crick.

From Scientific American • Sep. 24, 2023

With DNA too, Watson and Crick realized, the form of the molecule had to be intrinsically linked to function.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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