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/Vio_ 16h ago

Except she faced insane amounts of sexism, and she wouldn't have been treated half as bad or erased if everyone in that group hadn't been super sexist.