Based on: Recent Advances in Hematology: Being the Dr. James Watson Lectures for 1910. By Walter K. Hunter, M.D., D.Sc. With a colored plate. New York: William Wood and Company. 1912. Select the ...

James Watson, who has died aged 97, was the 25-year-old American biologist who in 1953, with Francis Crick, revealed the double helix structure of DNA, the chemical of which genes are made; for this ...

For James Watson, DNA was everything — not just his life's work, but the secret of life itself. Over his long and storied career, Watson arguably did more than any other scientist to transform a ...