James Watson

Nobel laureate James D. Watson, the renowned co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, resigned Thursday as chancellor of the prestigious Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the aftermath of an uproar over racial comments he made recently. The lab's board of directors suspended him last week after comments that he made in an interview appeared in the Oct. 14 Times of London. The board said its members "vehemently disagree with these statements and are bewildered and saddened."