"Writing the book has been the greatest privilege of my life," says biographer Graham Farmelo ...

Francis Crick missed a crucial seminar in 1951, probably because he was seeing a lover. James Watson did go, failed to take notes and misremembered key details. As a result, their first model of DNA ...

A Biography lifts the curtain on the private life of Charles Darwin, one of science’s most controversial pioneers.

In her groundbreaking trilogy, “Women Scientists in America,” she told the stories of numerous accomplished but largely invisible women. By Penelope Green Margaret W. Rossiter, a historian whose ...