James Watson was one of two of the "Watson and Crick" research team that discovered the DNA molecule. |
James Dewey Watson, born April 6, 1928, in Chicago, Illinois. Became a B.Sc. in Zoology at University of Chicago in 1947. In 1952, he started at [Cavendish Laboratory]?, where he met Francis Crick. Together, they developed the proposal of the helical structure of DNA, which they published in 1953, and for which both were awarded the Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine 1962. |