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.
Geneticist James Watson is famous for the co-discovery of the double helix structure of DNA. Here are some other details about him: -- He was born in 1928 in Chicago. -- He attended the University of Chicago after only two years of high school. -- He earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University.