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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James Watson was both a towering and controversial figure in science. Gerhard Rauchwetter/picture alliance via Getty Images Watson ...

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, ...

On a chilly February afternoon in 1953, a gangly American and a fast-talking Brit walked into the Eagle pub in Cambridge, England, and announced to the assembled imbibers that they had discovered the ...

Watson and Crick were friendly with Wilkins, who filled them in on the unpublished results coming out of Franklin's lab.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 ...

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 ...

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 ...