WHAT IT'S ABOUT James Watson — former director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Laurel Hollow — codiscovered the double helix structure of the DNA molecule with Francis Crick (who died in 2004), ...

DISGRACED scientist James Watson has auctioned his Nobel Prize medal in a symbolic move to ‘re-enter public life’ after a racism row. Christie’s says the gold medal won by American James Watson was ...

Thrust into the limelight for discovering the secret of life at age 25 with Francis Crick influential Nobel Prizewinning scientist James Watson has thrived on making headlines ever since His discovery ...

Nobel Prize-winning American scientist James Watson, who helped discover DNA, has been shorn of honorary titles after repeating widely criticized comments about race in recent PBS documentary American ...

Dr. James Watson's views on race and genetics during new PBS documentary shows that genius does not always bring wisdom with it. Of all the interviews I have ever done, the one a few years back with ...

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Five years ago, James Watson, one of the fathers of DNA, tried to sell his Nobel Prize because people thought he was a racist. Watson, who won the prize in 1962 for outlining the double-helix ...

James Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who came under fire in 2007 for claiming that black people were intellectually inferior to white people, was stripped of his honorary titles at a New ...

It's been almost seven years since dueling teams of scientists unveiled the first draft of the human genetic code, but the implications of that achievement are only now beginning to kick in. And it's ...

The stripping of James Watson’s honorary titles in response to his offensive views on race and genetics marked an important moment in science history. In PBS’s “American Masters: Decoding Watson,” ...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Friday revoked several honorary titles from its former director and Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in DNA research, after he repeated his belief that blacks are ...

Officials at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), while acknowledging the scientific contributions of James D. Watson, PhD, issued a statement indicating that the research institution “unequivocally ...