Answer: James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helix structure of deoxyribonucleic acid(DNA)
Which gave rise to modern molecular biology.
Explanation:
James Watson, born in 1928 is an American molecular biologist,geneticist and zoologist .
Francis Crick was a British molecular biologist, biophysicist who was born in 1916. In 1953 , James Watson and Francis crick made a discovery about the double helix structure of DNA and the authored an academic proposing the double helix structure of DNA.