Discovery of DNA

The story of a race between two teams of scientists in the 1950s - Francis Crick and James Watson, Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins - desperate to be the first to unlock the molecular structure of DNA. Biology - Cells And DNA - Learning Points. The discovery of DNA structure was pioneered by four scientists: Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, Francis Crick and James Watson. Wilkins and Franklin used X-ray images to reveal evidence of a helical structure in the DNA molecule. Crick and Watson instead built models of how they imagined DNA to look - like a cross or helix. In 1962 Crick, Watson and Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of the DNA double helix. A Twig Context Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum. Twig’s context films show abstract concepts in action in the real world.