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The DNA helix reshaped how we saw ourselves

Financial Express Lucknow

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November 16, 2025

Remembering DNA's discovery alongside the disputes that trailed its last surviving founder

- CARL ZIMMER

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.

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