Born: 1928-04-06 in Chicago, IL, USA
Gender: male
Field: American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist (born 1928)
James Dewey 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".
Awarded on: 1962-10-18
"for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"
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