Forensic genetic genealogy has named the woman, whose body was found on a cliff in 1966, as Dorothy Jean Williams. View on ...
What did the duo actually discover? Many people believe that American biologist James Watson and English physicist Francis Crick discovered DNA in the 1950s. In reality, this is not the case.
DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid. Nucleic acids are named for where they're found—inside the nuclei of cells—and for the acidic phosphate groups discovered in solution wherever DNA is present.