Watson’s legacy points to what’s at stake in today’s assault on science

Funding cuts, visa restrictions, and assaults on the scientific enterprise itself threaten to turn the next generation’s ...
The Durango Herald

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, according to ...
The Lancet

James D Watson

American geneticist who shared a Nobel Prize for discovering the double helix structure of DNA. Born on April 6, 1928 in Chicago, IL, USA, he died aged 97 years in East Northport on Long Island, NY, ...
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James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double helix, dead at 97

(Reuters) -James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the molecule of heredity, ushered in the age of genetics and provided the ...