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)
“Good science is difficult. We must believe strongly in our ideas.”
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