Betrayal, ambition and the double helix: turning Rosalind Franklin’s story and the discovery of the structure of DNA into an ...

Photos and letters show how James Watson and Francis Crick raced to uncover the double helix structure of DNA.

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

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

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution ...

James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double-helix structure, has died at 97. The Nobel Prize winner made the groundbreaking ...

As one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century, James Watson pioneered the field of genetics and left behind a ...

The co-discoverer of the structure of DNA helped to strengthen a US research institute and wrote a classic textbook, but also ...

James Dewey Watson, who helped reveal DNA’s double-helix structure, kicked off the Human Genome Project, and became infamous for his racist, sexist, and otherwise offensive statements, has died. He ...

James D. Watson, an Indiana University alumnus and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, died Thursday in a hospice center ...

James Watson, Nobel Prize-winning American biologist who helped discover DNA's double-helix structure, has died. Once ...

He furthered his studies with a PhD from Indiana University Bloomington, where his fascination with genetics blossomed as he researched bacterial viruses. In 1953, Watson, alongside Francis Crick and ...