http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/discovery-of-dna-structure-and-function-watson-397 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. Rather, DNA was first identified in the late 1860s by Swiss chemist Friedrich Miescher. Then, in the decades following Miescher’s discovery, other scientists–notably, PhoebusContinue Reading