But James Watson and Francis Crick's claim was a valid one, for they had in fact discovered the structure of DNA, the chemical that encodes instructions for building and replicating almost all ...

Watson, whose body was lying in front of her car, had sustained a close-range gunshot wound to the back of her head.

In the early 1950s, the race to discover DNA was on. At Cambridge University, graduate student Francis Crick and research fellow James Watson (b. 1928) had become interested, impressed especially ...

James Watson always wanted to be a part of something big. The so-called "brat-genius" of DNA has had the knack of being in the right place at the right time, coupled with an intellect keen enough ...