Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the molecule of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James Watson was credited as the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. Watson was a Nobel laureate and the former Chancellor of ...

The convicted sex offender and the late Cold Spring Harbor Lab director maintained a relationship for years — even up until ...

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 ...

Nobel laureate James Watson was expelled from his own laboratory after controversial racial statements that shook the scientific world.

Later in the 90s he was also associated with the Human Genome Project, where he was the head from 1990 to 1992. In 2014, the man sold his Nobel Prize. Over the course of years several of his highly ...