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 ...

American scientist James Watson speaks to reporters in 1962 after being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Photo of the double-helical structure of a section of DNA, discovered by ...

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died. He was 97.The ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the molecule of heredity, ushered in the age of genetics and provided the foundation ...

James Watson’s legacy is a cautionary tale against letting a profound discovery shape your entire worldview. By Nathaniel Comfort In “Crick: A Mind in Motion,” the British biologist Matthew Cobb ...