Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th century. 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 a scientific superstar until he made racist remarks that made him an outcast. Watson, the brilliant but controversial american biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of dna, the.
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