James Watson (97), the Nobel laureate American biologist and co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, passed away on Thursday.

Watson breathed his last in hospice care on Long Island in New York.

Citing his son, Duncan, the New York Times said Watson had been transferred to a hospice this week from a hospital where he had been treated for an infection.

Nobel Prize

Watson shared a 1962 Nobel Prize with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins for discovering that deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, is a double helix, consisting of two strands that coil around each other to create what resembles a long, gently twisting ladder, reported AP.

James Watson's career and controversy

According to New York Times, Watson lived on the grounds of the Cold Spring Harbor Laborator. In 1968, he took over

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