In 1962, scientists James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the double helix structure of DNA. However, it has long been believed that the ...

James Watson speaks during a press conference at the Science museum in London, 20 May 2005 American scientist James Watson speaks to reporters in 1962 after being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology ...

(AP) - James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died. He was ...

James Watson’s legacy is a cautionary tale against letting a profound discovery shape your entire worldview. By Nathaniel Comfort In “Crick: A Mind in Motion,” the British biologist Matthew Cobb ...

For James Watson, DNA was everything — not just his life's work, but the secret of life itself. Over his long and storied career, Watson arguably did more than any other scientist to transform a ...

Who was James D Watson? At 25, James D. Watson stepped into a world of science that was about to change forever. He played a ...

On a chilly February afternoon in 1953, a gangly American and a fast-talking Brit walked into the Eagle pub in Cambridge, England, and announced to the assembled imbibers that they had discovered the ...

James Watson, the scientist who became famous for helping discover the structure of DNA in 1953 and notorious decades later for suggesting that Black people are intellectually inferior to whites, has ...