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James Dewey Watson was born in Chicago on April 6, 1928, [1] the only son of Jean (née Mitchell) and James D. Watson, a businessman descended mostly from colonial English immigrants to America. [2] His maternal grandf...
Nobel-Winning DNA Scholar James Watson, Dead at 97, Leaves Famed but Fraught Legacy at Harvard James “Jim” D. Watson, who helped discover the structure of DNA at age 25 and went on to spend 21 ...
We marked last week the death at age 97 of James D. Watson (1928 – 2025), co-discoverer with Francis Crick of the structure of DNA. Reflecting on his life leads to contradictory responses: a hero of science, whose wor...
James D. Watson, the Nobel laureate who helped discover the double‑helix structure of DNA, has died at 97.
James D. Watson, co-discoverer of the DNA helix and father of the Human Genome Project, stands inside a laboratory at the Baylor College of Medicine's Human Genome Sequencing Center in Houston May ...
James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died, according ...
James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died. He was 97.
Watson shared a 1962 Nobel Prize with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins for discovering that deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, is a double helix, consisting of two strands that coil around each...
Dr. Watson’s role in decoding DNA, the genetic blueprint for life, would have been enough to establish him as one of the most important scientists of the 20th century. But he cemented that...
James D. Watson, the American scientist and Nobel laureate whose part in discovering the structure of DNA — the genetic blueprint for life — portended a long and illustrious career but who was ...
