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About that time, a new colleague joined the Harvard faculty. James D. Watson, who, with Francis Crick, discovered the structure of DNA, was “the Caligula of biology,” Dr. Wilson said. Watson, never known for manners or tact, attacked traditional biologists, whom he considered the equivalent of stamp collectors, lacking the wit to transform their work into modern science.