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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

8 May 2012: University of Cambridge research

12 May 2010: a fine edifice in which towork, and Newton, Darwin, Crick and Watson would doubtless be astounded by thehigh-specification laboratories available to today’s researchers in the physical andbiological sciences.

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.

2 Oct 2017: Ramanujan and Cartwright in mathematics; Babbage, Turing and Wilkes in computing; Darwin, Watson-Crick-Franklin, Hodgkin and Sanger in biology; Trevelyan, Elton and Judt in history.

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.

12 Sep 2008: disease. Since the first prize was awarded in 1946, 75 recipients have gone on to win Nobel Prizes, including many Cambridge scientists such as Watson and Crick, Hans Krebs, and Frederick