WHAT IT'S ABOUT James Watson — former director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Laurel Hollow — codiscovered the double helix structure of the DNA molecule with Francis Crick (who died in 2004), ...

“DNA” is a household word. When we read that potent acronym, or see the sinuous twin curves of the double helix, we think “innate,” “fundamental,” “essential,” “science,” “health.” To say something is ...

Photograph 51, the famous X-ray diffraction image of DNA taken by X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling in 1952, was a key piece of data that lead to James Watson and Francis ...

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A Nobel Prize-winning American scientist who co-discovered DNA has been stripped of his honorary titles at the laboratory he once led after repeating racist comments in a documentary. James Watson, ...

Thrust into the limelight for discovering the secret of life at age 25 with Francis Crick influential Nobel Prizewinning scientist James Watson has thrived on making headlines ever since His discovery ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nobel Prize-winning American scientist James Watson, who helped discover DNA, has been shorn of honorary titles after repeating ...

Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson, the man behind the double helix, confronts his complex legacy in the new documentary American Masters: Decoding Watson, premiering nationwide Wednesday, ...

Five years ago, James Watson, one of the fathers of DNA, tried to sell his Nobel Prize because people thought he was a racist. Watson, who won the prize in 1962 for outlining the double-helix ...

A Nobel Prize-winning American scientist and DNA pioneer has been stripped of his honorary titles at the laboratory he once led after repeating racist comments in a documentary. James Watson, who ...