James Watson had a dream in which he was walking up a spiral staircase. He and Francis Crick had been working on the structure of DNA at the Cavendish Laboratories in England, but were stymied by the ...
For James Watson, DNA was everything — not just his life's work, but the secret of life itself. Over his long and storied career, Watson arguably did more than any other scientist to transform a ...
James D Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 co-discovery of the structure of DNA, the molecule of heredity, ushered in the age of genetics and provided the foundation ...