Crick Dies: DNA Double Helix Co-Discoverer at Rest
He and James Watson used someone else's X-ray. Rosalind Franklin's Photo 51 showed the double helix structure of DNA — her colleague showed it to Watson without her knowledge. Crick and Watson built their model from it. They won the Nobel Prize in 1962. Franklin died in 1958, four years too early to be eligible. Crick spent the rest of his career at the Salk Institute studying consciousness. He died of colon cancer in July 2004, still working — a draft of a paper on consciousness was on his desk.
July 28, 2004
22 years ago
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