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James Watson Demise
November 11 , 2025
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- James Dewey Watson, the American molecular biologist, passed away.
- He was credited as the co-discoverer of the double-helix structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) alongside Francis Crick.
- Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery.
- Later, he became Chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and contributed to the Human Genome Project, sequencing the six billion base pairs of his own DNA in 2008.
- He authored the book ‘The Double Helix and taught’ at Harvard University, influencing generations of geneticists.
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