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8 Feb 2002: James Watson (with Maurice Wilkins) won the Medicine prize for their work on the structure of DNA.

31 May 2002: 1953. Darwin's legacy lived on in Cambridge when, in 1953, an astonishing biological breakthrough was made at the Cavendish Laboratory by two young scientists, James Watson and Francis Crick. ... 1962. Crick and Watson share the Nobel Prize for

13 Jan 2003: 2003 marks the 50th anniversary of the proposals, by James Watson and Francis Crick, of the double helical structure of DNA and this exhibition explores visual representations of the double helix. ... The exhibition includes a full-scale replica of the

25 Apr 2003: At the University of Cambridge in 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick deduced the structure of DNA in the Medical Research Council unit at the Cavendish Laboratory. ... James Watson had found the secret of life.

29 Jul 2004: Chicago-born James Watson, who had just arrived at the Cavendish, was particularly interested in the structure of nucleic acids and proteins; Crick believed that DNA was the means by which ... We are grateful that Cambridge provided the intellectual

7 Nov 2005: James Watson was a graduate student with rooms on R staircase of Memorial Court, Clare College when he and fellow student Francis Crick made the 1953 breakthrough which was to unlock ... James Watson is now Chancellor and former President of Cold Spring

9 Dec 2005: The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) will mark the achievements of the great Scottish chemist Lord Todd, whose work made the DNA breakthrough of Francis Crick and James Watson possible, by ... This work opened the way for Watson and Crick’s discovery

22 Dec 2005: Smithsonian honour for Hawking. Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, received the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. ... Sculpting the origins of life. A sculpture of the double helix structure

20 Jul 2006: Tragically, Franklin died from cancer aged 37. The 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was subsequently awarded to Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick and James Watson for their work on DNA.

18 Apr 2008: Notable recipients include: James Watson, discoverer of DNA, and novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn.