Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and ...

Franklin W. Stahl, an American molecular biologist whose landmark 1957-58 experiment with colleague Matthew Meselson revealed ...

In 1968 James Watson published The Double Helix, his highly personalized and controversial account of the events. It ...

Two separate teams worked on DNA structure at King’s College, one led by Franklin and the other by Maurice Wilkins. Franklin and Wilkins clashed temperamentally.

Rosalind Franklin is known for making a significant contribution to the discovery of the DNA double helix. In recent years, her story has become famous as one of a woman whose scientific work was ...

Before Watson and Crick basked in Nobel glory, before The Double Helix mythologized their genius, there was the photo. Photo 51 — crisp, clear, and groundbreaking — captured by Dr. Rosalind Franklin, ...

British scientists and science commentators have paid tribute to the DNA pioneer Maurice Wilkins, who died on Tuesday aged 87. Professor Wilkins, who called himself "the third man of the double helix" ...

The discovery of DNA's double helix structure 70 years ago opened up a world of new science — and also sparked disputes over who contributed what and who deserves credit. Much of the ...

DNA pioneer Professor Maurice Wilkins has died. Nobel Laureate Wilkins, 87, played an important role in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, the molecule that carries our "life code".

Rediscovered letters and postcards highlight the fierce competition among scientists who discovered DNA's famous double-helix structure and unraveled the genetic code.

STOCKBRIDGE — In 1962, James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for solving the structure of DNA. In his acceptance speech on behalf of ...

In their 1954 paper describing the double helix, however, they acknowledged that, without Franklin’s data, “the formulation of our structure would have been most unlikely, if not impossible”.