Who ? When ?Where ? - Discovered DNA - Where is the question ?

Question

Thank you all for such informative answers if as legend has it Messers Watson & Crick discovered DNA where was this discovery made apperently they met every day six days a week to discuss this wonder of the twentyith century. Where did they meet ?

Answer 1

The work on the structure of the DNA was done mainly in the UK. Francis Crick worked at Cambridge but the sneaking into Rosalind Franklin's office was done at King's College London. Really, to understand the whole story you must read The Double Helix which gives a blow-by-blow account.

This is the discovery of the STRUCTURE of DNA - not the existence of the molecule, which other respondents have pointed out was done in the 19th Century.

The reason for the importance of the discovery of the structure was that it showed that it was the molecule of inheritance, rather than proteins which had been favoured earlier.

Cambridge and London were the places in which the work for the 1953 discoveries were based.

Answer 2

Watson and Crick did NOT discover DNA. Deoxyribonucleic Acid was first described by Johan Friedrich Miescher (1844 - 1895) He isolated phosphate-rich chemicals (which he called nuclein) from the nuclei of white blood cells in 1869 while teaching at the University of Tübingen. We now call "nuclein" nucleic acid.

Watson and Crick were the first to correctly describe the structure of DNA, which enabled it to be properly identified as self-replicating genetic material. They were hugely assisted in their efforts by one of the unsung heroes of twentieth century science, Rosalind Franklin, their colleague Maurice Wilkins, and by research previously carried out by the American biochemist Edwin Chargaff.

Answer 3

Who: Johan Friedrich Miescher
When:1869
Where: University of Tübingen, Germany

Answer 4

The other name of DNA is Watson and Crick model

Answer 5

I actually thoguht it was Rosalind Elsie Franklin...
My horrible scince book says it was and Winkipedia also says its true.. Crick And Francis Took Her X-Ray photos and made them to look like the photos were theirs...

Here's Winkipeia's Story On Rosalind....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin

Answer 6

At the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in England.

Answer 7

This website has the answer. It was a man and a woman who discovered it through diffraction radiation. The website is great to answer your questions.

Answer 8

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/bio99/bio99283.htm

http://elvis.engr.wisc.edu/UER/uer96/author9/index.html

Good Luck

Answer 9

sorry

http://www.mun.ca/biology/scarr/4241/W&C2.htm