James Watson
Channel: Ananas Science
Date: 2017-02-24

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James Dewey Watson is an American molecular biologist, geneticist and zoologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin. Watson, 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".

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
0.  Introduction (00:00:00)
1.  Early life and education (00:02:00)
2.  Career and research (00:04:22)
............2.1.  Luria, Delbrück, and the Phage Group (00:04:24)
............2.2.  Identifying the double helix (00:08:25)
............2.3.  Harvard University (00:11:14)
............2.4.  Publishing ''The Double Helix'' (00:13:06)
............2.5.  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (00:13:59)
............2.6.  Human Genome Project (00:15:53)
............2.7.  Role of oxidants in disease (00:17:44)
............2.8.  Notable former students (00:18:36)
............2.9.  Other affiliations (00:19:06)
3.  Political activism (00:19:39)
4.  Controversies (00:20:57)
............4.1.  Use of King's College results (00:20:58)
............4.2.  Controversial comments (00:26:27)
............4.3.  ''Avoid Boring People'', UK book tour and Resignation (00:28:30)
............4.4.  Sale of Nobel Prize Medal (00:32:53)
5.  Personal life (00:33:39)
............5.1.  Marriage and family (00:33:48)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watson
Date: 02/23/2017

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