He helped to reveal the structure of life’s code, transformed science education and research, and remained a deeply controversial figure to the end.

The breakthrough turned him into a hallowed figure, but he later faced professional censure for offensive remarks.

Sohini Ramachandran is a professor of biology, data science, and computer science at Brown University. C. Brandon Ogbunu is ...

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They represented fragments of a DNA molecule, and young James Watson was trying to ...

(AP) -- 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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Watson was one of three recipients of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for decoding the genetic blueprint ...

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That discovery, made with co-researchers Francis Crick and Maurice H.F. Wilkins, led to a Nobel Prize in 1962. Crick moved west to La Jolla’s Salk Institute in 1976, and Watson, who died Thirsday at ...

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 ...