When you discover the helical structure of DNA, you're kind of a genius. What happened the same year that scientists Watson and Crick published their science-altering discovery?
Answer Dwight Eisenhower was inaugurated
Watson and Crick's discovery of the double helix was published in April, 1953, just a few months after Ike took office. . Their groundbreaking model of DNA not only looked cool, but explained the process by which DNA replicates and has genetic information coded on it. 9 years later, the two scientists shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
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