James Watson
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James Watson American molecular biologist who co-discovered the double helix structure of DNA with Francis Crick in 1953, using Rosalind Franklin's X-ray crystallography data. The discovery is considered one of the most important in biology. Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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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".
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