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James Watson exemplified the best and worst of science – from monumental discoveries to sexism and cutthroat competition

  • Written by Andor J. Kiss, Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Miami University
imageJames Watson was both a towering and controversial figure in science.Gerhard Rauchwetter/picture alliance via Getty Images

James Dewey Watson was an American molecular biologist most known for co-winning the 1962 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering the structure of DNA and its significance in transferring information in living...

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