(FILES) American scientist James Watson gives a press conference, on 20 October 1962 in Harvard University, after being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, in conjunction with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, for their research on the structure of nucleic acids and their discovery of the double-helical structure of a section of DNA. James Watson -- the Nobel laureate co-credited with the pivotal discovery of DNA's double-helix structure, but whose career was later tainted by his repeated racist remarks -- has died, his former lab said on November 7. 2025. He was 97. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by STAFF/AFP via Getty Images)