James D. Watson, professor of Biology, as won the 1962 Nobel price for Medicine and Physiology. Stockholm's Royal Caroline institute of Medicine and Surgery, which announced the award yesterday ...

That was how James D. Watson, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, described the genesis of The Double Helix, his controversial bestseller about the discovery of the structure of the ...

In the early 1950s, the race to discover DNA was on. At Cambridge University, graduate student Francis Crick and research fellow James Watson (b. 1928) had become interested, impressed especially ...

James Watson always wanted to be a part of something big. The so-called "brat-genius" of DNA has had the knack of being in the right place at the right time, coupled with an intellect keen enough ...

The landmark ideas of Watson and Crick relied heavily on the work of other scientists. What did the duo actually discover? Many people believe that American biologist James Watson and English ...