Ah but let us not forget the woman Rosalind Franklin's VERY critical role in this story.
At Kings College, Rosalind Franklin had just recently "succeeded in taking an X-ray diffraction pattern from a sample of DNA that showed a clearly recognizable cross or helical shape", and a few days prior to Feb 28, 1953, AND unbeknownst to Ms. Franklin, her colleague Maurice Wilkens had let James Watson see that image, confirming what Watson and Crick thought, but had not yet proven.
When the Nobel Prize was awarded to the three men in 1962, Rosalind had died of ovarian cancer, and so did not receive the Nobel Prize as the rules prohibit awarding it posthumously.