Photos and letters show how James Watson and Francis Crick raced to uncover the double helix structure of DNA.

In his later years, Watson's reputation was tarnished by comments on genetics and race that led him to be ostracized by the ...

James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the ...

US biochemist was responsible with the UK’s Francis Crick for 20th century’s most important biological discovery ...

The discovery of the DNA structure sparked a flurry of new research, birthing fields like molecular biology, biotechnology, ...

Reconstructing accurately how the parts of a complex molecular are held together knowing only how the molecule distorts and breaks up. This was the challenge taken on by a research team led by SISSA’s ...

Remembered for breakthrough with Francis Crick, Watson was later ostracised by the scientific establishment over comments on ...

Diagrams: Short section of DNA, 1951 -- Chemical structures of the DNA bases, 1951 -- Covalent bonds of the sugar-phosphate backbone -- Schematic view of a nucleotide -- Mg** ions binding phosphate ...

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