Biology History Made on February 28th, 1953

On this day 55 years ago Watson and Crick discovered the double helix structure of DNA. Their discovery was aided by crafts. Since Watson did not want to wait on a machine shop to develop his models he made his own with a straight edge, an Exacto knife, white cardboard and paste. This allowed him to manipulate the nucleotide base pairs until he found the best fit. Watson and Crick submitted their discovery to a journal, Nature, which published their findings on April 25, 1953. Then they won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962.