battledore (plural battledores) 1  A game played with a shuttlecock and rackets (properly battledore and shuttlecock); a forerunner of badminton. 2  The racket used in this game. ( 3 obsolete) A child's hornbook for learning the alphabet. ( obsolete) A bat or beetle used in washing clothes.
Watson is a U.S. molecular biologist, geneticist and zoologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick. In 1998, the Modern Library placed The Double Helix at number 7 on its list of the 100 best nonfiction books of the 20th century.
Rosalind Franklin discovered that DNA has the shape of a double  helix by using x-ray technology. However, two scientists got the  credit for discovering the double helix shâ¦ape of DNA, James Watson  and Francis Crick. Watson and Crick get the credit for discovering  the double helix shape because Rosalind Franklin died in 1958, and  the first Nobel prize for discovery wasn't awarded until 1962.