James Watson in 1993: he called Prince Charles ‘a Luddite’ and controversially portrayed Rosalind Franklin as being dour, dowdy and uncooperative - DANIEL MORDZINSKI/AFP via Getty Images James Watson, ...

Watson attended the University of Chicago at age 15, initially intending to become an ornithologist. After reading Erwin Schrödinger’s book of collected public lectures on the chemistry and physics of ...

Watson and Crick were friendly with Wilkins, who filled them in on the unpublished results coming out of Franklin's lab. They also saw an internal report with descriptions of her findings. This report ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. James Dewey Watson, Nobel Prize winner and “semi-professional loose cannon,” died Thursday in hospice care after a ...

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 ...

James D. Watson, who died last week at 97, was the greatest biologist of his generation. He was also a cruelly treated target of cancel culture, shunned by the academic science community for which he ...

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 ...