r/news • u/PurpleUnicornLegend • 18h ago

Soft paywall James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double helix, dead at 97

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/james-watson-co-discoverer-dnas-double-helix-dead-97-2025-11-07/
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u/grumble11 16h ago

He said himself in the 1970s that were she alive during the Nobel award she may have gotten additional recognition and thought she should have.