James Watson is immediately stepping down as chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. The move follows days of linkurl:public criticism;http://www.the ...

James Watson always wanted to be a part of something ... His early interest in science was bird watching and he graduated from the University of Chicago at age 19 with a degree in Zoology.

The landmark ideas of Watson and Crick relied heavily on the work of other scientists. What did the duo actually discover? Many people believe that American biologist James Watson and English ...

They were hardly modest, these two brash young scientists who in 1953 declared to patrons of the Eagle Pub in Cambridge, England, that they had "found the secret of life." But James Watson and ...

Scientists still needed to figure out this ... At Cambridge University, graduate student Francis Crick and research fellow James Watson (b. 1928) had become interested, impressed especially ...

Francis Crick and James Watson with a model of the DNA molecule ... Earlier that morning, in the nearby Cavendish laboratory, the two scientists had discovered the structure of deoxyribonucleic ...

Nobel Laureate James Watson was keeping quiet last month after ... had opened a “transatlantic rift” after two British scientists, Susan Greenfield, president of the Royal Institution, and ...

This opening sentence of James Watson and Francis Crick's second major ... The material in this set of articles describes the science surrounding the structure and function of DNA.