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jan 1, 1953 - James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins

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These three scientists discovered that DNA was in the shape of a double helix. Watson and Crick tried to build a model of DNA to discover its structure while Wilkins used X-Ray diffraction to take pictures of DNA. Their work was done in 1953.

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jan 1, 1953
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~ 72 years ago

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