James Watson and Francis Crick
A) were both English researchers working at Cambridge University.
B) performed elegant experiments in DNA chemistry.
C) constructed an accurate model of the DNA molecule illustrating its structural simplicity.
D) performed experiments that convinced scientists that DNA is a double-stranded molecule.
E) did all of these

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James Watson and Francis Crick are best known for constructing an accurate model of the DNA molecule, demonstrating its double helix structure, which illustrated its structural simplicity. They did not perform the experiments themselves that proved DNA is double-stranded; that was done by others like Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins.