The structure of DNA by Watson+Crick

Watson+Crick's Full names:

-James Watson.

-Francis Crick.

Facts:

-Crick and Watson, together with Maurice Wilkins, won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of the structure of DNA.

-Francis Harry Compton Crick was born on 8 June 1916 near Northampton.

-James Dewey Watson was born on 6 April 1928 in Chicago and studied at the universities of Chicago.

What did they do?

At that time Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin, both working at King's College, London, were using X-ray diffraction to study DNA. Crick and Watson used their findings in their own research. In April 1953, they published the news of their discovery, a molecular structure. Then Watson, Crick and Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962. Picture below is Watson and Crick.