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23 Dec 2003: Scientists from across the world came to Cambridge to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Crick and Watson's discovery of the structure of DNA.

28 Sep 2009: Rosalind Franklin, the often forgotten Cambridge scholar whose X-Ray diffraction images proved vital to the discovery of DNA, deservedly receives equal billing alongside Francis Watson and James Crick.

31 May 2002: Using experimental data assembled by Rosalind Franklin, another former member of the University, Crick and Watson for the first time revealed the double helix structure of DNA. ... 1962. Crick and Watson share the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine

29 Sep 2008: I.R.J. Jack was born on 5 December 1923 in Edinburgh, and was educated at George Watson's (where he was John Welsh Classical Scholar) and Edinburgh University, taking a

22 Feb 2023: Credit: Jennifer Watson / iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Images.

20 May 2016: Professor Chris Watson describes himself as “piggybacking” on their work to develop a technique for perfusing livers.

28 Jun 2012: Front row: left to right. Dr Richard Barnes / Dr Sue Brindley / Dr Tim Minshall / Lord Watson of Richmond / Dr Elizabeth Watson / Dr Glen Rangwala / Dr Fred Parker. ... Elizabeth Watson is an outstanding teacher whose creativity, care and commitment have

18 Oct 2023: Meet our Nobel Laureates 121 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to members of the University of Cambridge for significant advances. These include: the discovery of

30 Sep 2022: Francis Crick (Gonville and Caius College and Churchill College) and James Watson (Clare College).

10 Dec 2001: the discovery of vitamins; Crick and Watson, joint-winners of the Physiology prize in 1962 for their discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA; and Frederick Sanger who won the