In his later years, Watson's reputation was tarnished by comments on genetics and race that led him to be ostracized by the scientific establishment.

James Dewey Watson, Nobel Prize winner and “semi-professional loose cannon” whose racist views made him a scientific pariah ...

The breakthrough turned the Nobel Prize-winning biologist into a hallowed figure in the world of science. But he later faced condemnation and professional censure for remarks deemed racist.

James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died ...

James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the ...

The breakthrough did not come until 1953, when Watson visited Wilkins at King’s College in London, and Wilkins showed him a ...

As one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century, James Watson pioneered the field of genetics and left behind a ...

James Watson – the Nobel laureate co-credited with the discovery of DNA's double-helix structure, but whose career was later ...

James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among ...

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

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...

James Watson, Nobel Prize-winning co-discoverer of DNA's structure, has died at 97, leaving a controversial legacy.