James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double-helix structure, has died at 97. The Nobel Prize winner made the groundbreaking ...

The scientist leaves behind a complicated legacy after making a slew of offensive remarks during the later part of his life.

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

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

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

James Watson, who helped discover DNA’s double-helix structure, has died at the age of 97 following a brief illness.

James D Watson, co-discoverer of the DNA double-helix structure, has died at 97.Watson was an American biologist whose work ...

Scientist helped break new ground in study of genetics, but later caused outcry with promotion of racist ideas.

James D Watson, the pioneering scientist whose co-discovery of DNA’s double helix structure in 1953 reshaped our ...

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

James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the ...

American scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel Prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, ...