Few science books have managed to make readers laugh, gasp, and learn all at once, but The Double Helix by James D. Watson does just that. Published in 1968, this iconic memoir pulls readers straight ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James Watson was credited as the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. Watson was a Nobel laureate and the former Chancellor of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James Watson in 1993: he called Prince Charles ‘a Luddite’ and controversially portrayed Rosalind Franklin as being dour, dowdy ...

The most famous image to emerge from 20th-century biology is the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) double helix, illustrating the structure of the gene, life’s genetic material. Credit for the discovery of ...

In 1962, James Watson and Francis Crick of the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, and Maurice Wilkins of King's College London were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

James Watson, who co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953, has died at age 97. Born in Chicago in 1928, Watson made the groundbreaking discovery at just 24 years old alongside British ...

James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Double-Helix Shape of DNA, Has Died at Age 97 James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a ...

James Dewey Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped launch a revolution in biology and medicine, died Thursday at age 97. He died in hospice care after a brief ...

James Watson who discovered the DNA double helix structure in the 1950s interviewed in PBS's documentary program " American Masters: Decoding Watson" broadcasted on January 2, 2019, "Natural selection ...

James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the molecule of heredity, ushered in the age of genetics and provided the foundation ...

James D. Watson, who discovered the DNA double-helix structure and is regarded as a symbolic figure in 20th-century life sciences, passed away at the age of 97. The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL ...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Watson's former employer, confirmed the American scientist's death on Nov. 7 DANIEL MORDZINSKI/AFP via Getty Legendary scientist James Watson has died at the age of 97 ...