Dr. Comfort is a historian of genetics who is completing a biography of James Watson. At first, James Watson terrified me. It was 1991 and my first day as the science writer at Cold Spring Harbor ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for co-discovering the structure of DNA, died last week at the age of 97. He was a scientific giant, but in the ...

To the editor: James Watson’s 1962 Nobel Prize, awarded jointly with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, is among the best-known Nobel honors (“James Watson, Nobel Prize winner and DNA pioneer, dies,” ...

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James Watson, who won a Nobel prize for his role in discovering the double-helix structure of DNA, has died aged 97. “The elucidation of the structure of the double helix goes down, along with Mendel ...

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 97. The ...

James D Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning biologist whose discovery of the DNA double helix with Francis Crick transformed science, and whose later remarks on race and genetics drew condemnation from ...

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They represented fragments of a DNA molecule, and young James Watson was trying to ...