In 2003, Mr. Hwang celebrated the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick.

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Although its authors have now far eclipsed Mr Miller in fame, few then would have noticed the names James Watson and Francis Crick.

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's "I Have a Dream" speech, a photograph, a copy of Francis Crick and James Watson's famous "double helix" scientific paper from 1953 and Shakespeare's 154 sonnets.

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Her image of a double helix provided the crucial evidence James Watson and Francis Crick needed to complete their model, but neither scientist acknowledged her work when they received the Nobel Prize in 1962.

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It will be exactly 60 years ago in February that James Watson and Francis Crick famously burst into the pub next to their Cambridge laboratory to announce the discovery of the "secret of life".

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Biologist James Watson and physicist Francis Crick realized our DNA molecules form a three-dimensional double helix in 1953.

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Crick, along with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins, was given the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for "discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".

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In the seven-page letter Crick told how he and James Watson found the copying mechanism "by which life comes from life".

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Crick was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine along with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins.

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