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

5 Dec 2013: Alumni include naturalist Sir David Attenborough, novelist Peter Ackroyd CBE, writer Allison Pearson, musicians Dr John Rutter CBE, Sir Roger Norrington and Sir Richard Stilgoe, and Nobel Prize winners Sir James ... Watson and Sir Tim Hunt.

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

14 Jan 2010: Cambridge academics Sir Ronald Fisher and JBS Haldane, together with Sewall Wright, produced ground-breaking work in population genetics in the early 1900s, and James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the

11 Dec 2013: Alumni include naturalist Sir David Attenborough, novelist Peter Ackroyd CBE, writer Allison Pearson, musicians Dr John Rutter CBE, Sir Roger Norrington and Sir Richard Stilgoe, and Nobel Prize winners Sir James ... Watson and Sir Tim Hunt.

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.

25 Nov 2015: Francis Crick and James Watson.

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.

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

24 Feb 2017: helix' structure by Francis Crick and James Watson.