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Who Else Contributed to the Double Helix Discovery? - Beyond Watson and Crick: The True History of DNA | Sleepy Facts About History
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The story of the double helix is usually remembered as a sudden flash of genius in a Cambridge laboratory in 1953, when James Watson and Francis Crick revealed the secret of inheritance. But this familiar narrative is a photograph cropped so tightly that most of the frame has disappeared. The structure of DNA was not discovered in a single season by two men working alone. It was the visible conclusion of a process that had been running for nearly a century, involving dozens of researchers…
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