The breakthrough — made when the brash, Chicago-born Watson was just 24 — turned him into a hallowed figure in the world of ...

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution ...

His decoding of the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th ...

Watson shared a 1962 Nobel Prize with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins for discovering that deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, is a double helix.

James Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who co-discovered DNA’s double-helix structure and later faced backlash for ...

The Chicago-born DNA pioneer was just 24 when he made the breakthrough discovery, which cemented his place as a distinguished ...

Last year Surrealism turned 100. The movement, world-renowned for its wacky, often unsettling aesthetics and sometimes-erotic ...