November 8, 2025—James Dewey Watson, the brilliant and often polarizing biologist whose audacious collaboration with Francis Crick unveiled the double helix structure of DNA in 1953, has died at the age of 97, leaving behind a legacy as labyrinthine and influential as the genetic blueprint he helped decipher. Watson passed away peacefully on November 6, 2025, at his home in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, from complications of advanced age and a long-standing battle with Alzheimer’s disease