James D. Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97

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 helped crack DNA’s code, sparking medical advances and ethical debates

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They ...

James Watson, Co-Discoverer of DNA’s Double Helix, Leaves Behind a Troubling Legacy

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

James Watson, famous geneticist and Nobel Prize co-winner in the structure of DNA, dies at 97

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 ...

Use AI or lose your job: How bosses are forcing the next workplace reset

Across corporate America, the message from the corner office is blunt: learn generative AI fast or be left behind. From ...
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James Watson, DNA Pioneer and Nobel Prize Winner, Dies

James Watson, who helped discover the double-helix structure of DNA that's the blueprint for human life, has died. He was 97 ...