Joseph Graves writes that James Watson’s racists remarks are indicative of a time when ‘race science’ was accepted within the scientific community. But just as scientific thinking has ...

James Watson, who helped discover the double-helix structure of DNA alongside Francis Crick in the 1950s based on the work of British chemist Rosalind Franklin, said in a PBS film that genes cause ...

Ironically, I was introduced to the scientific legacy of James Watson by my mother, an African-American woman raised in west Baltimore in the 1940s and ’50s, the granddaughter of a woman born in ...

Lab strips James Watson of final honorary roles after his continuing racist statements. By Sharon Begley Jan. 11, 2019. Reprints. James Watson speaking at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow ...

In 1953, at just 24 years old, James Watson made a discovery that brought him lifelong fame. At Cavendish Laboratory, he and Francis Crick were the first to map the double helix, the structure of DNA.