Tushar Kanti Nath

It was 1968 when an autobiography titled “The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA” was published by Atheneum Press, USA and Weidenfeld & Nicolson, UK. The book was later adapted into a 107-minute television programme by the BBC — “Life Story”, and also as “The Race for the Double Helix” in the US in 1987. In 1998, the Modern Library listed “The Double Helix” as number 7 among its list of the hundred best non-fiction books of the twentieth century. The autobiography was written by none other than the distinguished American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist, and, most notably, the co-discoverer of the double helical structure of DNA, James Dewey Watson. 

JD Watson passed away at the age of 97 on 6 November 2025 in East Northport, New York