James Watson helped his research partners to discover the double helix structure of DNA and died of unknown causes at an East Northport, N.Y., hospice on Thursday at age 97.

Il 21 febbraio 1953 insieme al biochimico Francis Crick intuì quale fosse la struttura

Se convirtió en uno de los científicos más celebrados de la ciencia del siglo XX al describir la famosa forma de doble hélice junto con Francis Crick