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The DNA helix reshaped how we saw ourselves
Financial Express Lucknow
|November 16, 2025
Remembering DNA's discovery alongside the disputes that trailed its last surviving founder
THE DISCOVERY OF the structure of DNA in the early 1950s is one of the most riveting dramas in the history of science, crammed with brilliant research, naked ambition, intense rivalry and outright deception.There were many players, including Rosalind Franklin, a wizard of Xray crystallography, and Francis Crick, a physicist in search of the secret of life. Now, with the death of the American geneticist James Watson at 97 on Thursday, the last of those players is gone.
This story is from the November 16, 2025 edition of Financial Express Lucknow.
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