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James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double-helix shape, dead at 97
A man with grey hair wearing a suit stands by a chalkboard with DNA double helix and base pairs drawn on it.

James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the molecule of heredity, ushered in the age of genetics and provided the foundation for the biotechnology revolution of the late 20th century, has died at the age of 97.

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