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Which came first: Ceres or the DNA double helix?

Ceres came first, in 1801 (discovered). The DNA double helix followed 152 years later, in 1953 (published).

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  1. First1801

    Ceres

    dwarf planet · discovered

    Ceres was found on the first night of 1801 and was counted as a planet for about 50 years.

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  2. Second1953

    The DNA double helix

    discovery · published

    Watson and Crick described the double helix of DNA in a short paper in Nature in 1953.

    Checked against Wikipedia and Wikidata

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Years from Wikidata, each checked against the item’s English Wikipedia article on 2026-10-18. A year stands for what its label says: a founding, a first patent, a premiere.