Often celebrated as a pioneer of genetics alongside Francis Crick, racist and sexist remarks tarnished his reputation in ...

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

His decoding of the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th ...

James Dewey Watson, Nobel Prize winner and “semi-professional loose cannon” whose racist views made him a scientific pariah ...

The scientist leaves behind a complicated legacy after making a slew of offensive remarks during the later part of his life.

In 1953, James Watson, a 25-year-old researcher at the University of Cambridge, visited Maurice Wilkins, a researcher at King ...

Before such adventurous chemists as Gerhard Schramm even tried to manufacture nucleic acid, they had to understand how its giant molecules are put together, how they function as the essence of life on ...

The American biologist whose name became synonymous with the discovery of DNA’s double-helical structure, died Thursday.

This monumental scientific achievement occurred within a context of intense international collaboration, rapid technical ...

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James Watson -- the Nobel laureate co-credited with the pivotal discovery of DNA's double-helix structure, but whose career ...