James dewey watson, a molecular biologist whose work helped decode the structure of dna, died on november 6, 2025, at a hospice in east northport, n.y James watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the nobel prize winners for discovering the structure of dna, died thursday after a brief illness, according to a statement from his former.
He was 97 years old He was a scientific superstar until he made racist remarks that made him an outcast. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th century.
