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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

Watson and Crick were devastated, until they realized Pauling’s scheme would not work.

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

Max Perutz had been a member of the committee; he had obtained a copy of the report and handed it to Watson and Crick.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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