Watson and Crick Publish the Structure of DNA
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Cavendish LaboratoryCONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCEThe issue itself carries the date: the paper was "published by Francis Crick and James D. Watson in the scientific journal Nature[1] on pages 737-738 of its 171st volume (dated 25 April 1953)", and Nature's own page for the article gives the same issue date.
Nature carries Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid, the paper in which Francis Crick and James Watson describe the double helix. It runs to two pages and settles how genetic instructions are held and passed on.
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