James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution ...
His decoding of the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th ...
In February 1953, two men walked into a pub in Cambridge and announced they had found "the secret of life". It was not an ...
Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died.