WHAT IT'S ABOUT James Watson — former director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Laurel Hollow — codiscovered the double helix structure of the DNA molecule with Francis Crick (who died in 2004), ...

Nobel Prize-winning American scientist James Watson, who helped discover DNA, has been shorn of honorary titles after repeating widely criticized comments about race in recent PBS documentary American ...

James Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who came under fire in 2007 for claiming that black people were intellectually inferior to white people, was stripped of his honorary titles at a New ...

Five years ago, James Watson, one of the fathers of DNA, tried to sell his Nobel Prize because people thought he was a racist. Watson, who won the prize in 1962 for outlining the double-helix ...

Thrust into the limelight for discovering the secret of life at age 25 with Francis Crick influential Nobel Prizewinning scientist James Watson has thrived on making headlines ever since His discovery ...

The man who co-discovered the structure of DNA has been stripped of his honorary titles by the lab he once directed after he repeated racist comments in a documentary linking race and intelligence.

DISGRACED scientist James Watson has auctioned his Nobel Prize medal in a symbolic move to ‘re-enter public life’ after a racism row. Christie’s says the gold medal won by American James Watson was ...

Jan. 12 (UPI) --Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson was stripped of his honorary titles from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the New York facility where he worked for nearly four decades. The ...

Dr. James Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who helped discover the “double helix” structure of DNA in 1953, has been stripped of numerous honorary awards following his repeated racist ...

A complicated set of feelings emerged on the Torrey Pines mesa Friday with the passing of molecular biologist James Watson, the scientist credited with co-discovering the structure of DNA, the ...