James D. Watson
James D. Watson
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962
Co-Nobelists Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins
The President’s National Medal of Sciences – Biological Sciences 1997
Name: James Dewey Watson
Birth: 6 April 1928, Chicago, Ill, USA
Institution: Harvard Univesity, Campridge, MA, USA
Award: “for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material.”
Portion of Cash: 1/3
Education: Horace Mann Grammar School, Chicago. South Shore High School, Chicago.
B.Sc. Zoology University of Chicago 1947. Ph.D. Zoology Indiana University, Bloomington 1950.
Ph.D. Mentor: Salvador E. Luria, Later Medicine Nobelist 1969.
Mentee: Mario Capecchi, Medical Nobelist, 2007
Ph.D. Thesis: The Biological Properties of X-Ray Inactivated Bacteriophage (1951)
Zoologist. ‘Discovered molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material.’ Very generous with subordinates regarding authorship of articles.
“Good science is difficult. We must believe strongly in our ideas.”
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The President’s National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Title: President
Affiliation: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor,New York USA
Gender: Male
Award Discipline: Biological Sciences
Award Year: 1997
Citation: “For five decades of scientific and intellectual leadership in molecular biology, ranging from his co-discovery of the double helical structure of DNA to the launching of the Human Genome Project.”
Presented by President Bill Clinton in a ceremony in Room 450, Old Executive Office Building, on Tuesday, December 16, 1997.