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The revelation of DNA’s chemical structure made it possible to understand how it might replicate and direct the growth of ...

Franklin’s experience was far from unusual. Scientific discovery is shaped by patriarchy and colonialism as the story of ...

Before Watson and Crick basked in Nobel glory, before The Double Helix mythologized their genius, there was the photo. Photo 51 — crisp, clear, and groundbreaking — captured by Dr. Rosalind Franklin, ...

They were hardly modest, these two brash young scientists who in 1953 declared to patrons of the Eagle Pub in Cambridge, England, that they had "found the secret of life." But James Watson and Francis ...

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 ...

For James Watson, DNA was everything — not just his life's work, but the secret of life itself. Over his long and storied career, Watson arguably did more than any other scientist to transform a ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Andor J. Kiss, Miami University (THE CONVERSATION) James Dewey Watson was an American ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mathes will bring his holiday concert to Purchase, N.Y. Dec. 20-21, while preparing ...