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James Watson

1928–2025

2 standalone books

James Dewey Watson was an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he and Francis Crick co-authored an academic paper in Nature proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, building on research by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling. In 1962, Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 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. Watson was born in 1928 and died in 2025.

Born
1928

Books by James Watson

  1. Cover of Dictionary of media and communication studies

    Dictionary of media and communication studies

    2000

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  2. Cover of The Double Helix

    The Double Helix

    1968

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