Happy DNA Day!
Happy DNA Day! On this day in 1953, James
Watson and Francis Crick published the paper “A structure for
Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid”, which described the double-helix structure of
DNA. Their discovery wouldn’t have been possible without this X-ray
diffraction image of DNA captured by Rosalind Franklin in 1952. Known
as Photo 51, it helped Watson and Crick develop the first molecular
model of DNA, which earned them and Maurice Wilkins the Nobel Prize in
Medicine in 1962.
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Image: Raymond Gosling/King's College London
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