James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928 died November 6, 2025) an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he co-authored with Francis Crick the academic paper in Nature proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. Nine years later, Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material". Watson earned degrees at the University of Chicago (Bachelor of Science, 1947) and Indiana University Bloomington (PhD, 1950). Following a post-doctoral year at the University of Copenhagen with Herman Kalckar and Ole Maaløe, Watson worked at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory in England, where he first met his future collaborator Francis Crick. From 1956 to 1976, Watson was on the faculty of the Harvard University Biology Department, promoting research in molecular biology. From 1968, Watson served as director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), greatly expanding its level of funding and research. At Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, he shifted his research emphasis to the study of cancer, along with making it a world-leading research center in molecular biology. In 1994, Watson started as president and served for 10 years. He was then appointed chancellor, serving until his resignation in 2007 after making comments claiming that there is a genetic link between intelligence and race. In 2019, following the broadcast of a documentary where Watson reiterated these views on race and genetics, CSHL revoked his honorary titles and severed all ties with him. Watson has written many science books, including the textbook Molecular Biology of the Gene (1965) and his bestselling book The Double Helix (1968). Between 1988 and 1992, Watson was associated with the National Institutes of Health, helping to establish the Human Genome Project, which completed the task of mapping the human genome in 2003 James Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, made several controversial, racist comments about Black people, most notably in a 2007 interview where he stated he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because social policies are based on the premise that "their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really". Key statements he made include: In a 2007 interview with the Sunday Times, he suggested that Black people's intelligence levels were inherently lower than those of white people. He added that while he hoped everyone was equal, "people who have to deal with black employees find this is not true". In a 2000 lecture, he suggested a link between skin color and sex drive, claiming that melanin (the pigment that gives skin its color) boosted libido and saying, "That's why you have Latin lovers. You never have an English lover, only an English patient". In a 2018 PBS documentary, he reaffirmed his 2007 views, stating his opinions on race and intelligence had not changed because he had "not seen any knowledge" to counter them. Watson's comments were widely condemned by the scientific community as "reprehensible, unsupported by science" and led to him being stripped of most of his honorary titles and administrative duties at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory where he had worked for decades May the Holy Roman Catholic Church be blessed by God the Father God the Son & God the Holy Spirit Hallelujah Hallelujah Blessed be the word of the Lord for Christ is risen Hallelujah Hallelujah  peace be still in Nomine Patris et FiLii et Spiritus Sancti amen
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James Watson on DNA, the human genome, and his controversial life