{"id":81063,"date":"2025-11-07T21:42:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=81063"},"modified":"2025-11-07T21:42:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:42:56","slug":"james-watson-co-discoverer-of-the-double-helix-shape-of-dna-has-died-at-age-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/07\/james-watson-co-discoverer-of-the-double-helix-shape-of-dna-has-died-at-age-97\/","title":{"rendered":"James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Q1jjp.img?w=800&amp;h=435&amp;q=60&amp;m=2&amp;f=jpg\" alt=\"Obit James Watson:\" width=\"573\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n<p>James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/dna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">DNA<\/a> in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/james-watson-co-discoverer-of-the-double-helix-shape-of-dna-has-died-at-age-97\/ar-AA1Q1o2y?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=690e62af205944358e4de7bb35a39387&amp;ei=17\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of\u00a0DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/James-Watson.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81065,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81063\/revisions\/81065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}