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

James Watson’s work on the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA led to a revolution in biology and genetics ...

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

On June 17, 1985, Arlington, Texas mother Joanne Lemieux and her two daughters—12-year-old Renee and 14-year-old ...

James D. Watson, who discovered the DNA double-helix structure and is regarded as a symbolic figure in 20th-century life ...

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

After being convicted for the triple homicide of a woman, her 2-month-old granddaughter, and a male tenant, Alexander Hung ...

The breakthrough did not come until 1953, when Watson visited Wilkins at King’s College in London, and Wilkins showed him a ...

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

James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died ...

When Napoleon marched into Russia in 1812, he brought with him the largest army Europe had ever seen. When he limped back out, he’d met his match — not in muskets or cannon fire, but in microbes.