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

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

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

The breakthrough turned the Nobel Prize-winning biologist into a hallowed figure in the world of science. But he later faced ...

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, who won the Nobel Prize for co-discovering the structure of DNA, died last week at the age of 97. He was a scientific giant, but in the final two decades of his life, he falsely stated ...

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 Watson, who shared the Nobel prize for his work on DNA’s molecular structure, has died at the age of 97.

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 Thursday after a brief illness, according to a statement from his former ...