Photos and letters show how James Watson and Francis Crick raced to uncover the double helix structure of DNA.

"The importance of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) within living cells is undisputed" (Watson & Crick, 1953). This opening sentence of James Watson and Francis Crick's second major paper, ...

Extracted from: Nature (London, England), v. 171, no. 4356 (April 25, 1953). Names of Watson and co-author Sir Francis Crick at end of article. At head of title ...

Before such adventurous chemists as Gerhard Schramm even tried to manufacture nucleic acid, they had to understand how its giant molecules are put together, how they function as the essence of ...

Before Watson and Crick basked in Nobel glory, before The Double Helix mythologized their genius, there was the photo. Photo 51 — crisp, clear, and groundbreaking — captured by Dr. Rosalind ...