researchers James Watson and Francis Crick were pursuing a definitive model for the stable structure of DNA inside cell nuclei. Watson and Crick ultimately used Franklin's images, along with their ...

As early as 1943 Oswald Avery proved what had been suspected: that DNA, a nucleic acid ... the molecule yielded a shadow picture of the molecule's structure, by how the X-rays bounced off its ...

Without her knowledge, one of her colleagues showed the picture to James Watson. When he saw it, he knew that his and Francis Crick’s theory about the structure of DNA was correct. The original ...

[to] one man, one place, one date." Laying the Groundwork: Levene Investigates the Structure of DNA Meanwhile, even as Miescher's name fell into obscurity by the twentieth century, other ...

Chances are you've seen an illustration of DNA's double-helix structure and even pictures of the chromosomes that make up the human genome. But where and how does the famous double helix fit into ...