Who discovered the double helix?

Answer 1

There is debate and controversy about who actually discovered the double helix. The two who made the report of the discovery was James Watson and Francis Crick. But their work was believed to be only possible through the discoveries by others, such as Raymond Gosling, Alexander Strokes and Herbert Wilson.

Answer 2

Rosalind Franklin developed images of the structure of DNA using X-ray crystallography. That data aided James Watson and Francis Crick in determining the precise structure which was described in their 1953 article in Nature, called "A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid."

Answer 3

James Watson and Francis Crick, but Maurice Wilkins gave them the idea of the double helix in DNA.

Answer 4

The DNA structure known as the double helix was first discovered by James Watson and Francis Crick. The discovery of the double helix was in the year 1953.

Answer 5

Watson and crick