IBM chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna announced Gerstner’s death in an email sent Sunday to its employees, but didn’t provide a ...

In 1953, he and three fellow researchers co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA — a breakthrough that unlocked the secrets of how life works. The discovery revealed how a molecule could store ...

Dr. Comfort is a historian of genetics who is completing a biography of James Watson. At first, James Watson terrified me. It was 1991 and my first day as the science writer at Cold Spring Harbor ...

James D. Watson, who died last week at 97, was the greatest biologist of his generation. He was also a cruelly treated target of cancel culture, shunned by the academic science community for which he ...

Sohini Ramachandran is a professor of biology, data science, and computer science at Brown University. C. Brandon Ogbunu is an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale ...

James Watson speaks at a 2016 event for undergraduates in Harvard's Science Center. The talk was organized by Organismic and Evolutionary Biology lecturer Andrew J. Berry.By Savannah I. Whaley When ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for co-discovering the structure of DNA, died last week at the age of 97. He was a scientific giant, but in the ...

To the editor: James Watson’s 1962 Nobel Prize, awarded jointly with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, is among the best-known Nobel honors (“James Watson, Nobel Prize winner and DNA pioneer, dies,” ...

James Watson, who won a Nobel prize for his role in discovering the double-helix structure of DNA, has died aged 97. “The elucidation of the structure of the double helix goes down, along with Mendel ...

How do we reckon with the legacy of people who have done excellent work, but who have said or done terrible things? Last week, James Watson died at the age of 97. Watson’s scientific work was ...

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died. He was 97. The ...