Structure of dna

Discovering the Structure of DNA

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    Determining the Structure of DNA

  • The race to find the structure of DNA begins

    The race to find the structure of DNA begins

  • The amount of A=T and G=C

    The amount of A=T and G=C

    Erwin Chargoff demonstrates that the amount of Adenine always equal the amount of Thymine and the amount of Guanine always equals the amount of Cytosine.
  • Photo 51:

    Photo 51:

    Rosalind Frankiin captures an xray diffraction image of the DNA double helix structure
  • Watson & Crick find the structure!

    Watson & Crick find the structure!

    Watson & Crick's "Secret of Life" is announced in a pub in Cambridge England.
  • The Nobel Prize

    The Nobel Prize

    <a
    href='http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1962/' >The Nobel Prize</a> in Physiology or Medicine is awarded jointly to Francis Harry Compton Crick, James, Dewey Watson, and Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins. (Rosalind Franklin, who worked with Wilkins, passed away in 1958.)

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