Photos and letters show how James Watson and Francis Crick raced to uncover the double helix structure of DNA.

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

James D. Watson, an Indiana University alumnus and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, died Thursday in a hospice center ...

Molecular biologist James D. Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double-helix structure, has died at 97. His groundbreaking 1953 ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...

In his later years, Watson's reputation was tarnished by comments on genetics and race that led him to be ostracized by the ...

US biochemist was responsible with the UK’s Francis Crick for 20th century’s most important biological discovery ...

The breakthrough did not come until 1953, when Watson visited Wilkins at King’s College in London, and Wilkins showed him a ...

Nobel Prize-winning American scientist James Watson, one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA, has died aged 97.

Nobel Prize-winning American scientist James Watson, one of the co-discoverers of the DNA structure, has passed away at the ...

This revelation was not a mere boast but the culmination of intense research into the structure of DNA by American biologist James Watson and British physicist Francis Crick. Their discovery has since ...

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