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 ...

James Watson, who has died aged 97, was the 25-year-old American biologist who in 1953, with Francis Crick, revealed the double helix structure of DNA, the chemical of which genes are made; for this ...

They were hardly modest, these two brash young scientists who in 1953 declared to patrons of the Eagle Pub in Cambridge, England, that they had "found the secret of life." But James Watson and Francis ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The tree lighting is one of several events, including holiday markets, menorah ...

(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 ...

Watson attended the University of Chicago at age 15, initially intending to become an ornithologist. After reading Erwin Schrödinger’s book of collected public lectures on the chemistry and physics of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) One car was rolled over on its side when crews got to the scene, an official said. New ...