DNA pioneer James Watson is to sell the Nobel Prize he won for his co-discovery of the double helix structure, the building block of life.

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

2000-11-13 04:00:00 PDT BERKELEY-- Nobel laureate James Watson, whose co-discovery of DNA revolutionized the field of genetics, has provoked a scientific controversy by suggesting there are ...

A couple months ago, in the middle of an interview at MIT about a new collaboration in cancer research, I noticed something odd on the office wall -- a framed piece of glass with the words “D ...

A day after social media tore into geneticist Eric Lander for toasting James Watson, the co-discoverer of the double helix who in his later years has become known for racist and misogynist views ...

The auction also included Watson's own handwritten notes for his acceptance speech at the December 10, 1962, banquet ceremony in Stockholm, which sold for $365,000, and his manuscript and ...

James Watson, a co-discoverer of DNA's double-helix structure, in his office at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on June 10, 2015. Credit: J. Conrad Williams Jr.

A research institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign agreed to host James Watson, a Nobel laureate whose work is credited with discovering the structure of DNA, to give a lecture ...

James Watson co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA back in the 1950s. Now, the famous scientist is being stripped of his honorary titles at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL ...

It’s commonly believed that James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helix shape of DNA. But in fact, they based their work on one of their colleagues at King’s College in London ...