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Watson and Crick

Two men in suits stand side by side, one with his arms crossed, against a neutral background, with a DNA helix model visible between them.

James Watson and Francis Crick, working at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, published the double-helix model of DNA in Nature in April 1953. The structure depended critically on X-ray diffraction images produced by Rosalind Franklin at King's College London. Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize; Franklin had died of cancer in 1958.

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