WHATEVER else may be said about James D. Watson in The Double Helix, he is honest about his motives. He knew then (in 1953, when he was 24 years old) that DNA was something big. He knew that to ...

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 ...

If you were at a Manual sports event over the years, especially basketball or football, you were there with Sir James. His ...

250 Years On True to the Last Famed biologist James Watson has become the latest would-be campus speaker to be disinvited for political reasons, according to Jerry Coyne. One would think that 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 ...