DNA: the blueprint of life and, during the early 1950s, a baffling enigma that could win a Nobel Prize. Everyone knows that James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helix. In fact, they clicked into place the last piece of a huge jigsaw puzzle that other researchers had assembled over decades. These included Maurice Wilkins (the ‘Third Man of DNA’), Rosalind Franklin (famously demonised by Watson) and several ‘lost heroes’ who fought to prove that DNA is the stuff of genes, only to be airbrushed out of history. Unravelling the Double Helix sets the record straight. Gareth Williams, will talk about this fascinating story