In 1953, scientists pieced together a twisted molecule, and DNA finally had a shape

Scientists uncovered DNA's double helix structure in 1953. James Watson and Francis Crick proposed the model. It explained ...
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James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double helix who later courted controversy, dead at 97

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 foundation ...
The Scientist

Lego DNA: Building the Double Helix, Brick by Brick

From a young age, Daniel Khosravinia tinkered and built numerous LEGO models, from knights to the Star Wars Death Star. This sparked his interest in how things are built, and when he learned about the ...
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James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97

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 ...
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James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix structure, dies at 97

James Dewey Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped launch a revolution in biology and medicine, died Thursday at age 97. He died in hospice care after a brief ...
Nature

James Watson obituary: co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix who reshaped modern biology

Jan Witkowski is the former executive director of the Banbury Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and an editor, with Alex Gann, of The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix. James D. Watson was ...
Ars Technica

James Watson, who helped unravel DNA’s double-helix, has died

James Dewey Watson, who helped reveal DNA’s double-helix structure, kicked off the Human Genome Project, and became infamous for his racist, sexist, and otherwise offensive statements, has died. He ...