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Watson and Crick were friendly with Wilkins, who filled them in on the unpublished results coming out of Franklin's lab. They also saw an internal report with descriptions of her findings. This report ...

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, ...

James Dewey Watson, who helped reveal DNA’s double-helix structure, kicked off the Human Genome Project, and became infamous for his racist, sexist, and otherwise offensive statements, has died. He ...

In 1953, when he was not yet 25 years old, Watson worked with English researcher Francis Crick to piece together clues from various experiments — including work done by X-ray crystallographer Rosalind ...