James Watson

About James Watson

Molecular biologist who, with Francis Crick, co-discovered the double helix structure of DNA in 1953. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his groundbreaking discovery nine years later, in 1962.

James Dewey Watson KBE is an American molecular biologist, geneticist and zoologist. In 1953, he co-authored an academic article with Francis Crick proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. Watson, Crick and Maurice Wilkins received the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its implications for communication in matter. Living". In the years that followed, it was recognized that Watson and her colleagues did not correctly attribute to colleague Rosalind Franklin her contribution to the discovery of the double helix structure. Watson is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Indiana University. After a year after his doctorate at the University of Copenhagen with Herman Kalckar and Ole Maaløe, Watson worked at the Cavendish laboratory at the University of Cambridge in England, where he first met his future collaborator Francis Crick.

Fields	Genetics
Other notable students	Ewan Birney, Ronald W. Davis (postdoc), Phillip Allen Sharp (postdoc), Richard J. Roberts (postdoc), John Tooze (postdoc)
Institutions	Indiana University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Harvard University, University of Cambridge, National Institutes of Health
Born	James Dewey Watson, April 06, 1928, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Doctoral students	Mario Capecchi, Bob Horvitz, Peter B. Moore, Joan Steitz
Alma mater	University of Chicago (BS, 1947), Indiana University (PhD, 1950)
Thesis	The Biological Properties of X-Ray Inactivated Bacteriophage (1951)
Notable awards	Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1960), Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1962), Nobel Prize (1962), John J. Carty Award (1971), Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1981), EMBO Membership (1985), Copley Medal (1993), Lomonosov Gold Medal (1994)
Known for	DNA structure, Molecular biology
Nationality	American
Children	2

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Trivia

From 1988 and 1992, he was associated with the National Institutes of Health, where he helped establish the Human Genome Project, an international scientific research project with the goal of mapping out the total genes of the human genome from both a physical and functional standpoint.

James Watson before fame

He attended the University of Chicago and Indiana University before joining the staff of the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in England, where he met his future partner and friend Francis Crick.

Achievement of James Watson

From 1988 and 1992, he was associated with the National Institutes of Health, where he helped establish the Human Genome Project, an international scientific research project with the goal of mapping out the total genes of the human genome from both a physical and functional standpoint.

Salary 2020

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Net Worth 2020

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James Watson family life

In 1968, he married Elizabeth Watson.

Associations of James Watson

Madame Curie, a fellow Nobel Laureate, impacted him.

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