He said his main reason for writing The Double Helix was to interest young people in science. "When I was young I much preferred to read fiction," he said, "So I decided to make The Double Helix ...

Seventy years ago, a trio of scientific papers announcing the discovery of DNA’s double helix was published ... was not eligible to be included. Many people have been outraged by accounts ...

Five years ago, James Watson, one of the fathers of DNA, tried to sell his Nobel Prize because people thought he was a racist. Watson, who won the prize in 1962 for outlining the double-helix ...

William Astbury and the Forgotten Road to the Double-Helix, published in 2014 by Oxford University Press. In the world of sport, we remember a winner. Not many people have heard of Pierre Rolland ...

Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved ... Because of Watson’s narrative, people have made a fetish of Photograph 51. It has become the emblem of both Franklin’s ...