who discovered the molecule
The First Discovery of DNA. Few remember the man who discovered the molecule of life three-quarters of a century before Watson and Crick revealed its structure.Ralf Dahm.ost everybody knows that DNA contains the blueprint for life. The names of Watson and Crick, the first scientists to figure out the structure of DNA in the 1950s, are also widely recognized. But left obscure in history is the name of the chemist who first isolated the DNA molecule itself.