The Chicago-born researcher received the 1962 Nobel Prize alongside Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins. James Watson, one of three scientists credited with discovery DNA's double-helix structure, has ...

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 ...

(AP) - 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, ...