ŠJ.Paul Robinson, Purdue University  BMS 631 - LECTURE1.PPT
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Watson & Crick
The work which began with Avery's identification of DNA as the "transforming principle" thus led to research that overturned the old conception of DNA as a repetitive and simple molecule, confirmed DNA's role in genetic transmission, and, with James Watson and Francis Crick's 1953 paper, elucidated its structure.
J. D. WATSON and F. H. C. CRICK
A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid
Nature, 2 April 1953, VOL 171,737 1953
This is a picture of part of the original model built by Watson and Crick at Cambridge in 1953.