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

James Watson, who co-won the Nobel Prize for discovering DNA's structure, was a towering and controversial figure in science.

US biochemist was responsible with the UK’s Francis Crick for 20th century’s most important biological discovery ...

James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died Thursday after a brief illness, according to a statement from his former ...

Dr. Watson was one of three recipients of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery but he faced ...