Describe the characteristics features of dna double helical model proposed by watson and crick

James Watson and Francis Crick, 1959  ©Crick and Watson, together with Maurice Wilkins, won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of the structure of DNA.

This was one of the most significant scientific discoveries of the 20th century.

Francis Harry Compton Crick was born on 8 June 1916 near Northampton. He studied physics at University College, London, and during World War Two worked for the Admiralty on the development of mines.

He changed from physics to biology and in 1947 began to work at Cambridge University. By 1949, he was working at the Medical Research Council unit at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge.

Watson and crick discovery

In 1951, an American student, James Watson, arrived at the unit and the two began to work together.

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

He then moved to Cambridge University. Watson and Crick worked together on studying the structure o