James Watson’s legacy is a cautionary tale against letting a profound discovery shape your entire worldview. By Nathaniel Comfort In “Crick: A Mind in Motion,” the British biologist Matthew Cobb ...
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 to ...
(Reuters) -James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the molecule of heredity, ushered in the age of genetics and provided the ...