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Watson, Crick or Franklin Who Really Discovered the Secret of DNA?
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- 1997
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- Wed Feb 25 2004

... WATSON, CRICK OR FRANKLIN... WHO REALLY DISCOVERED THE SECRET OF DNA? On 25 April 1953 the prestigious journal "Nature" published one of its 'letter contributions' (remarkably short scientific papers) signed by James Watson and Francis Crick. It was one of the most momentous papers of the modern era, proposing a structure for the chemical, DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid), which composes the hereditary material of all living cellular organisms. It proposed the - now well-known - double helix structure. It is common knowledge that this paper was published without its authors undertaking a single experiment. Instead, the experiments supporting their models were undertaken over the previous three years in the Strand basement laboratories of the Medical Research Council Biophysics Unit at King's College, London, primarily by Dr Rosalind Franklin. This isn't necessarily to suggest that their models were not the result of significant hard work and inspirational insight, just that they were based on













