<P> Franklin was never nominated for a Nobel Prize . Her work was a crucial part in the discovery of DNA 's structure , which along with subsequent related work led to Francis Crick , James Watson , and Maurice Wilkins being awarded a Nobel Prize in 1962 . She had died in 1958 , and during her lifetime the DNA structure was not considered as fully proven . It took Wilkins and his colleagues about seven years to collect enough data to prove and refine the proposed DNA structure . Moreover , its biological significance , as proposed by Watson and Crick , was not established . General acceptance for the DNA double helix and its function did not start until late in the 1950s , leading to Nobel nominations in 1960 , 1961 , and 1962 for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , and in 1962 for Nobel Prize in Chemistry . The first breakthrough was from Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl in 1958 , who experimentally showed the DNA replication of a bacterium Escherichia coli . Now known as Meselson -- Stahl experiment , DNA was found to replicate into two double - stranded helices , with each helix having one of the original DNA strands . This DNA replication was firmly established by 1961 after further demonstration in other species , and of the stepwise chemical reaction . According to the 1961 Crick -- Monod letter , this experimental proof , along with Wilkins having initiated the DNA diffraction work , were the reasons why Crick felt that Wilkins should be included in the DNA Nobel Prize . </P>
<P> Franklin was never nominated for a Nobel Prize . Her work was a crucial part in the discovery of DNA 's structure , which along with subsequent related work led to Francis Crick , James Watson , and Maurice Wilkins being awarded a Nobel Prize in 1962 . She had died in 1958 , and during her lifetime the DNA structure was not considered as fully proven . It took Wilkins and his colleagues about seven years to collect enough data to prove and refine the proposed DNA structure . Moreover , its biological significance , as proposed by Watson and Crick , was not established . General acceptance for the DNA double helix and its function did not start until late in the 1950s , leading to Nobel nominations in 1960 , 1961 , and 1962 for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , and in 1962 for Nobel Prize in Chemistry . The first breakthrough was from Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl in 1958 , who experimentally showed the DNA replication of a bacterium Escherichia coli . Now known as Meselson -- Stahl experiment , DNA was found to replicate into two double - stranded helices , with each helix having one of the original DNA strands . This DNA replication was firmly established by 1961 after further demonstration in other species , and of the stepwise chemical reaction . According to the 1961 Crick -- Monod letter , this experimental proof , along with Wilkins having initiated the DNA diffraction work , were the reasons why Crick felt that Wilkins should be included in the DNA Nobel Prize . </P>
who won the nobel peace prize for dna structure
who won the nobel peace prize for dna structure
Francis Crick James Watson Maurice Wilkins
Francis Crick James Watson Maurice Wilkins