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James Watson, who discovered the Double-Helix structure of DNA in 1953, has died aged 97.
Born in Chicago in 1928, Watson made a critical discovery at the age of 24 alongside British Physicist Francis Crick. Watson died in nursing care after a brief illness, his son confirmed Friday, according to the Associated Press.
“As a scientist, his determination with Francis Crick of the structure of DNA, based on information from Rosalind Franklin, Maurice Wilkins at King’s College London,” was a research center in Filt Harbour, said a statement on Friday.
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US biologist James Watson, who shared the Nobel Prize for helping to discover the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, poses for a photo at an exhibition in Berlin on Oct 11, 2004. (Markus Schreiber / AP Photo)
Watson died earlier this week on Long Island, the New York Times reported.
Watson, along with scientists Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, won the Nobel Prize after discovering Drali’s double-stranded structure of DNA, two interlaced strands.
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James Watson, left, and Francis sack in 1959 (Pet Pictures)
“Francis Crick and I made the discovery of the century, that was very clear,” he once famously said.
The discovery reveals how genetic information is stored and propagated and forms the basis of today’s genetic engineering, the treatment of diseases through DNA identification, according to the disaster.
In the years following the discovery, books given to Watson, including “double helix” in 1968 and “molecular biology of the gene” in 1965.
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Vladimir Fortov, President of the Russian Academy of Science, right, returns the Medical Freedom Award that was auctioned with Russian businessman James Watson at the Russian Academy of Science, in Moscow, Russia, on June 17, 2015. (AP Photo / Ivan Sekretarev)
However, later in life, he again became extremely suspicious of racist rhetoric.
“His race and IQ comments in 2008 led the Cshl board of trustees to remove him from all management roles and his appointment as a Cshl Trustee,” the Cold Harbor Laboratory wrote. “When he made similar statements in 2020, the Board revoked his Emeritus status and severed all communications with him.”
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Crick and Wilkins both died in 2004, according to their respective media outlets.
