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Today in History — April 25

1953

25 April 1953: Watson and Crick Reveal DNA Double Helix Structure

On April 25, 1953, the scientific journal Nature published a paper by James Watson and Francis Crick titled Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid. This groundbreaking article revealed the double…

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