Overview

James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, best known as one of the three co-discoverers of the structure of DNA, with Rosalind Franklin and Francis Crick, in 1953. Watson, Francis 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". He studied at the University of Chicago and Indiana University and subsequently worked at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory in England where he first met his future collaborator and personal friend Francis Crick.

A major research effort involves the influence of the genetic variations have on toxicology and chemical sensitivity.

References

• James D. Watson - wikipedia