(FILES) Picture taken on April 23, 1993 in Paris of American geneticist James Dewey Watson in front of a blackboard, explaining his work to discover the molecular structure on DNA for which he shared the 1962 Physiology and Medicine Nobel Prize with British Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins. James Watson -- the Nobel laureate co-credited with the pivotal discovery of DNA's double-helix structure, but whose career was later tainted by his repeated racist remarks -- has died, his former lab said on November 7, 2025. He was 97. (Photo by DANIEL MORDZINSKI / AFP)
