333,367 views
45 votes
45 votes
Who madeThe double-helix structure of DNA:

User Dheeraj Kumar Rao
by
2.8k points

2 Answers

25 votes
25 votes

Answer:

James D. Watson

Explanation: In 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson first described the molecular structure of DNA, which they called a "double helix," in the journal Nature. For this breakthrough discovery, Watson, Crick, and their colleague Maurice Wilkins won a Nobel Prize in Physiology, or Medicine, in 1962.

User Kelsey Abreu
by
3.1k points
29 votes
29 votes

Answer: Francis Crick and James Watson (or Rosalind Franklin).

Explanation: After Crick and Watson took over the study that Franklin did, they managed to figure out the structure and the parts of the DNA. But specifically, Crick and Watson were the people who called the structure a “double helix”.

User Joaquinlpereyra
by
3.9k points