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...Crick, Watson and Maurice Wilkins win Nobel Prize...
...Watson's The Double Helix is published and becomes a best seller...
...Watson tinkers with a "pretty" model, unsure of the placement of the backbone or which bases pair with which. That week Watson learns he has been using the wrong chemical form of one of the key bases...
...eureka moment, Watson realizes the base pairs don't match like with like--A-A or G-G--rather they pair A-T and G-C. Crick concurs, and their model falls into place...
...Watson and Crick report their discovery in a letter to the journal Nature...