Third Man of the Double Helix

Francis Crick and Jim Watson are well known for their discovery of the structure of DNA in Cambridge in 1953. But they shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the Double Helix with a third man, Maurice Wilkins, a diffident physicist who did not enjoy the limelight. He and his team at King''s College London had painstakingly measured the angles, bonds, and orientations of the DNA structure - da...