James Watson

James Dewey Watson was 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... Wikipedia

• Born:  James Dewey Watson, April 06, 1928, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
• Age at death:  97 years
• Died:  November 06, 2025, East Northport, New York, U.S.
• Fields:  Genetics
• Institutions:  Indiana University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Harvard University, California Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge, National Institutes of Health
• Education:  University of Chicago (BS), Indiana University Bloomington (PhD)
• Thesis:  The Biological Properties of X-Ray Inactivated Bacteriophage (1951)
• Doctoral students:  Mario Capecchi, Bob Horvitz, Peter B. Moore, David Schlessinger, Joan Steitz
• Other notable students:  Ewan Birney, Ronald W. Davis (postdoc), Phillip Allen Sharp (postdoc), Richard J. Roberts (postdoc), John Tooze (postdoc), Chen Lan-bo (postdoc)
• Known for:  DNA structure, Molecular biology
• Notable awards:  Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1960), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1962), John J. Carty Award (1971), Copley Medal (1993), Lomonosov Gold Medal (1994)
• Children:  2
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