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October 29, 2007, 12:15 PM ET

Nobel Laureate Resigns From Lab

The Nobel laureate James D. Watson, who helped to discover the structure of DNA, quit his post last Thursday as chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and left his seat on the New York institution’s board, on which he had served for more than 40 years, Bijal Trivedi reports on The Chronicle’s News blog.

His resignation comes in the wake of public outrage over racist comments he made to a British newspaper about the intelligence levels of Africans, Trivedi writes. Read more.

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