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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

3 Aug 2020: Shankar Balasubramanian. In 1953, Cambridge researchers Francis Crick and James Watson co-authored a study published in the journal Nature which showed that DNA in our cells has an intertwined, ‘double

25 Apr 2005: Watson and Crick's famous discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953.

14 May 2020: It’s a historic landmark where Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA.

8 Feb 2002: In the same year four of this group won Nobel Prizes - Perutz and Kendrew were awarded the Chemistry prize for their structural analyses of haemoglobin and myoglobin and Francis Crick and ... James Watson (with Maurice Wilkins) won the Medicine prize for

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.

16 May 2012: Professor Shankar Balasubramanian. When Watson and Crick discovered the double helix structure of DNA in 1953, they declared they had “found the secret of life”.

2 Nov 2009: Even Watson and Crick’s famous celebratory pint at The Eagle pub following their discovery of the double helix structure of DNA gets a retelling, with Watson commenting on what hard ... work it was, only for Crick to respond that it was “elementary,

31 Jan 2013: Shankar Balasubramanian. In 1953, Cambridge researchers Watson and Crick published a paper describing the interweaving ‘double helix’ DNA structure – the chemical code for all life.

6 Mar 2009: Juxtaposing the ancient and the modern, the beautiful and the scientific, a cast of Aphrodite stands close to a replica of Crick and Watson’s model of the double helix.