#x-ray-crystallography

#x-ray-crystallography

The structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was discovered in 1953 by two molecular biologists, James Dewey Watson (1928-2025) and Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916-2004). Watson and Crick were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 for their pioneering work. This is the accepted version of history. However, Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958), an English chemist whose expertise in X-ray crystallography made a significant contribution, may have paved the way for Watson and Crick.

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