The discovery of the Structure of DNA relied on the work of not one scientist but a whole group of scientists. The main four scientists involved were James Watson, Rosalind Franklin, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins. Each of these people had a specific part to play in the discovery of the structure of DNA. In the article The Structure of DNA it reads, “Scientific discoveries may seem like sudden breakthroughs — the work of a genius who just "sees" the answer — but new findings don't come out of nowhere. Each breakthrough is made possible by the work that came before it.” (The Structure of DNA , 2005) This couldn’t be more true when talking about these four scientists and the discovery of DNA. They aren’t the first to study DNA or the last