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.
Nov. 7 James Watson, who helped his research partners to discover the double helix structure of DNA, died of unknown causes at an East Northport, N.Y., hospice at age 97.
Watson’s son, Rufus, and officials with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory confirmed his death on Thursday without citing the cause, according to The .
Watson recently was transferred from a hospital treating him for an infection to the New York hospice earlier in the week, his son, Duncan, told The New York Times.
Watson won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962, which he shared with Francis Crick and Maurice Williams, for their scientific discoveries related to DNA.
