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Nobel Prize-winning DNA pioneer stripped of honors over 'reprehensible' race comments

armenpress.am01/14th/2019, 8:30

Nobel Prize-winning DNA pioneer stripped of honors over 'reprehensible' race comments

American Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson, who co-discovered DNA, has been stripped of his honorary titles at the laboratory he once led after repeating racist comments in a documentary, CNN reports.

Watson discovered the double-helix structure of DNA alongside Francis Crick in the 1950s based on the work of British chemist Rosalind Franklin.

The 90 year old scientist said in a PBS film that genes cause a difference in intelligence between white and black people in IQ tests.

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