Race for the Double Helix

Deoxyribonucleic Acid, DNA for short, is a molecule that has been one of the biggest mysteries of modern science. What is its structure? Does it contain the genetic code and if it does how is it used? These are some of the questions that puzzled scientist in the early fifties. Many scientists tried to figure out DNA but only four came close to answering the questions. Those scientists were James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, …

…thymine (T) and guanine (G) with cytosine (C), connected by hydrogen bonds, like a twisted ladder; and because of James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin science made a giant leap. In 1962 James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins received the Nobel Prize for their finding the structure in 1953 of the structure DNA. Because the Nobel Prize can be awarded only to people living, Rosalind Franklin because she died did not get recognized.