Wrong. According to a correction in Nature, it was discovered by Swiss physician Friedrich Miescher in 1869, nearly a hundred years before. James Watson, Francis Crick and the less often mentioned Rosalind Franklin were responsible for determining DNA's structure, a double helix shape.
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