James Watson’s legacy is a cautionary tale against letting a profound discovery shape your entire worldview. By Nathaniel Comfort In “Crick: A Mind in Motion,” the British biologist Matthew Cobb ...

In February 1953, two men walked into a pub in Cambridge and announced they had found "the secret of life". It was not an idle boast. One was James Watson, an American biologist from the Cavendish ...

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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 ...

That realization was a breakthrough. It instantly suggested how hereditary information is stored and how cells duplicate their DNA when they divide. The duplication begins with the two strands of DNA ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Delhi: James D. Watson, one of the most influential and controversial scientists of the 20th century, has died at the age of 97 in New York. Best known as the co-discoverer of DNA’s double-helix ...

James D. Watson, the American scientist best known for co-discovering the double-helix structure of DNA alongside Francis Crick, has died aged 97. His passing was confirmed by Cold Spring Harbor ...

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 ...