Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James Watson was both a towering and controversial figure in science. Gerhard Rauchwetter/picture alliance via Getty Images Watson ...

Watson and Crick were friendly with Wilkins, who filled them in on the unpublished results coming out of Franklin's lab. They also saw an internal report with descriptions of her findings. This report ...

Molecular Biologist Dr. James Watson attends the 10th Anniversary Sing For Hope Gala at Tribeca Rooftop on October 24, 2016 in New York City. Credit - Mike Pont; WireImage There’s no telling how the ...

To the editor: James Watson’s 1962 Nobel Prize, awarded jointly with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, is among the best-known Nobel honors (“James Watson, Nobel Prize winner and DNA pioneer, dies,” ...

(CNN) — James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died Thursday after a brief illness, according to a statement from his ...

There’s no telling how the history of science might have changed if James Watson had had more fun with the binoculars he bought in 1940. He was only 12, but he bought them with his own money, and he ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Watson attended the University of Chicago at age 15, initially intending to become an ...

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 ...