Here is American James Watson talking about the discovery, for which he won a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1962 along with co-discoverer Francis Crick, a British physicist.

Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/05/no_author/how-america-destroyed-its-most-distinguished-living-scientist/

“He was acting as though slavery still existed,” said Willie James Watson Sr., Ketanji Brown Jackson’s distant cousin and Merriweather’s great-great-grandson.

Source: https://www.pressherald.com/2023/06/19/ketanji-brown-jacksons-ancestors-were-enslaved-her-husbands-were-enslavers/

James Watson and Francis Crick are famous for having first worked out the structure of DNA.

Source: https://theconversation.com/the-man-in-the-monkey-nut-coat-how-a-1940s-scientist-made-vegan-wool-from-peanuts-198180