James Watson exemplified the best and worst of science – from monumental discoveries to sexism and cutthroat competition

James Dewey Watson is best known for his Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the structure of DNA. Controversy around who should ...

James Watson: Controversial discoverer of 'the secret of life'

In February 1953, two men walked into a pub in Cambridge and announced they had found "the secret of life". It was not an ...