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James Watson, Nobel Prize-winning co-discoverer of DNA’s double-helix structure, dead at 97

James Watson, who co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953, has died at age 97.

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James Watson, Co-Discoverer of DNA’s Double Helix, Leaves Behind a Troubling Legacy

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James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA, has died at age 97

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James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died.

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James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s double-helix structure, has died

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DNA pioneer James Watson dies at 97

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James D. Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97

Dr. Watson’s role in decoding DNA, the genetic blueprint for life, would have been enough to establish him as one of the most important scientists of the 20th century.

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Scientist who unraveled the code of life dies at 97

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James Watson, Who Helped Discover DNA’s Double-Helix Structure, Dies at 97

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The DNA Helix Changed How We Thought About Ourselves

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself.

James Watson helped crack DNA's code, sparking medical advances and ethical debates

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They represented fragments of a DNA molecule, and young James Watson was trying to figure how they fit together in a way that let DNA do its job as the stuff of genes.