Watson attended the University of Chicago at age 15, initially intending to become an ornithologist. After reading Erwin Schrödinger’s book of collected public lectures on the chemistry and physics of ...

Based on: Recent Advances in Hematology: Being the Dr. James Watson Lectures for 1910. By Walter K. Hunter, M.D., D.Sc. With a colored plate. New York: William Wood and Company. 1912. Select the ...

James Watson, who has died aged 97, was the 25-year-old American biologist who in 1953, with Francis Crick, revealed the double helix structure of DNA, the chemical of which genes are made; for this ...

In February 1953, two men walked into a pub in Cambridge and announced they had found "the secret of life". It was not an idle boast. One was James Watson, an American biologist from the Cavendish ...

The day before James Watson arrived to deliver the 2013 Michael Davys Lecture in Oxford, I received an email from his personal physician in New York asking me to arrange for him to be seen by ‘one of ...