James D. Watson
(1928-)
James D. Watson is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he co-authored with
Francis Crick the academic paper in
Nature proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. Watson, Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".
I and my wife Holly had the privilege of sitting in on Watson's course on molecular biology at Harvard when we were graduate students.
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