{"id":20162,"date":"2025-11-08T02:03:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T20:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/james-d-watson-co-discoverer-of-dnas-twisted-ladder-structure-dies-aged-97\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T02:03:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T20:33:26","slug":"james-d-watson-co-discoverer-of-dnas-twisted-ladder-structure-dies-aged-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/james-d-watson-co-discoverer-of-dnas-twisted-ladder-structure-dies-aged-97\/","title":{"rendered":"James D Watson, co-discoverer of DNA\u2019s twisted-ladder structure, dies aged 97"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nshorts-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nshorts-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-headline\">James D Watson, co-discoverer of DNA\u2019s twisted-ladder structure, dies aged 97<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-summary\">Nobel prize winner shaped medicine, crimefighting and genealogy but later years marred by racist remarksJames D Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died, according to his former research lab. He was 97.The breakthrough \u2013 made when the brash, Chicago-born Watson was just 24 \u2013 turned him into a hallowed figure in the world of science for decades. But near the end of his life, he faced condemnation and professional censure for offensive remarks, including saying Black people were less intelligent than white people. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/07\/james-watson-scientist-dna-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nshorts-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-audio-section\" style=\"margin-top:15px;padding:10px;background:#f5f5f5;border-radius:5px\"><strong>Listen:<\/strong> <audio controls style=\"width:100%;margin:10px 0\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&#038;tl=en&#038;client=tw-ob&#038;q=Nobel+prize+winner+shaped+medicine%2C+crimefighting+and+genealogy+but+later+years+marred+by+racist+remarksJames+D+Watson%2C+whose+co-discovery+of+the+twisted-ladder+structure+of+DNA+in+1953+helped+light+t\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#0073aa;text-decoration:none\">\u2193 Download Audio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts James D Watson, co-discoverer of DNA\u2019s twisted-ladder structure, dies aged 97 Nobel prize winner shaped medicine,<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20163,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20162\/revisions\/20163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}