Working together at King's College, Cambridge University, this pair of scientists unraveled the mysteries of the structure of DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid.
Crick was a 35-year-old Englishman, Watson a 23-year-old American. Despite their youthful ages, their combined scientific acumen was broad and deep, enabling them to identify the ladder-like double helix structure of DNA, a discovery that has led to great advances in medicine and in the solving of crimes.
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