James D. Watson | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-06

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00:02:32 1 Early life and education
00:05:20 2 Career and research
00:05:29 2.1 Luria, Delbrück, and the Phage Group
00:10:02 2.2 Identifying the double helix
00:13:17 2.3 Use of the King’s College results
00:16:38 2.4 Harvard University
00:18:29 2.5 Publishing iThe Double Helix/i
00:20:40 2.6 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
00:22:49 2.7 Human Genome Project
00:26:23 2.8 Later life
00:28:06 2.9 Notable former students
00:28:46 2.10 Other affiliations
00:29:28 2.11 iAvoid Boring People/i
00:31:24 2.12 Comments on race
00:34:19 3 Personal life
00:34:38 3.1 Marriage and family
00:35:15 4 Awards and honors
00:35:29 4.1 Honorary degrees received
00:35:38 4.2 Professional and honorary affiliations
00:35:49 5 See also



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James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist and zoologist. In 1953, he co-authored with Francis Crick the academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. 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".
Watson earned degrees at the University of Chicago (BS, 1947) and Indiana University (PhD, 1950). Following a post-doctoral year at the University of Copenhagen with Herman Kalckar and Ole Maaloe, Watson worked at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory in England, where he first met his future collaborator Francis Crick.
From 1956 to 1976, Watson was on the faculty of the Harvard University Biology Department, promoting research in molecular biology. From 1968 he served as director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), greatly expanding its level of funding and research. At CSHL, he shifted his research emphasis to the study of cancer, along with making it a world leading research center in molecular biology. In 1994, he started as president and served for 10 years. He was then appointed chancellor, serving until he resigned in 2007 after making comments claiming a genetic link between intelligence and race. Between 1988 and 1992, Watson was associated with the National Institutes of Health, helping to establish the Human Genome Project.
Watson has written many science books, including the textbook Molecular Biology of the Gene (1965) and his bestselling book The Double Helix (1968).
In January 2019, following the broadcast of a television documentary in which Watson repeated his views about race and genetics, CSHL revoked honorary titles that it had awarded to him and severed all ties with him.