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James D. Watson

James D. Watson
James watson was born in Chicago, Illinois on april 6th, 1928. he went to school for eight years and went to high school for two years. Then he received a tuition scholarship to the university of chicago , and went there for four years . in 1947 , he received a b.s.c DEGREE IN ZOOLOGY. HIS INTEREST WAS IN BIRDWATCHING , BUT LATER , HE GOT MORE INTERESTED IN GENETICS . AFTER HE HAD EARNED MANY EDUCATION RELATED DEGREES IN DIFFERENT SUBJECTS , HE STUDIED THE EFFECT OD X-RAYS ON BACTERIOPHAGE MULTIPLICATION . FROM 1950 TO 1951 , HE WORKED IN COPENHAGEN AS A MERCK FELLOW . HE LATER MET MAURICE WILKINS AND SAW THE X-RAY DIFFRACTION PATTERN OF CRYSTALLINE DNA . THIS MADE HIM VERY INTERESTED AND HE THEN CHANGED THE DIRECTION OF HIS FUTURE . HE THEN STARTED WORK ON THIS MATERIAL . LATER , HE LEARNED LOTS MORE CONCERNING DNA , AND THIS LEAD TO A FAMOUS FUTURE FOR HIM .
    James Watson WAS commended AND STILL IS COMMENDED because of one huge reason : He and Francis crick discovered the structure of dna . at the time , in 1950 , he was racing with maurice wilkins , rosalind Franklin , and linus pauling to unleash the true structure of dna . in particular , they were trying to figure out that dna was a molecule in which two strands made up a tightly linked pair with the help of bases : adenine bonded with thymine , and guanine bonded with cytosine . they called this a double helix . after they had proved this in 1953 , they were awarded a noble prize 9 years later in 1962 .

6 years later , James taught at harvard and cal tech . he has made many large contributions to the understanding of the genetic code . He then became the director of the cold springs harbor laboratory of quantitative biology , in new york state . james watson wrote the double helix in 1968 , the story of how he discovered the structure of dna. watson he

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