American geneticist who shared a Nobel Prize for discovering the double helix structure of DNA. Born on April 6, 1928 in ...

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He helped to reveal the structure of life’s code, transformed science education and research, and remained a deeply controversial figure to the end.

James Dewey Watson was an American molecular biologist most known for co-winning the 1962 Nobel Prize in physiology or ...

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That discovery, made with co-researchers Francis Crick and Maurice H.F. Wilkins, led to a Nobel Prize in 1962. Crick moved west to La Jolla’s Salk Institute in 1976, and Watson, who died Thirsday at ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...

Watson shared a 1962 Nobel Prize with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins for discovering that deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, ...

His collaboration with biophysicist Francis Crick on the molecular key to all living organisms would make him one of the most ...