Jabarkan Anugerah dan kehormatan dari James D. Watson dalam bahasa melayu

Watson telah memenangi banyak anugerah termasuk:

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, 1960

Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences (2001)

Charles A. Dana Award, 1994

Copley Medal of the Royal Society, 1993

CSHL Double Helix Medal Honoree, 2008

Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry, 1960

Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences

Gairdner Foundation International Award, 2002

Honorary Fellow, the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution

Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE), 2002

Hope Funds for Cancer Research: James D. Watson Award of Excellence for Scientific Achievement (2014)

Irish America Hall of Fame, inducted March 2011

John Collins Warren Prize of the Massachusetts General Hospital

John J. Carty Award in molecular biology from the National Academy of Sciences

Kaul Foundation Award for Excellence

Lotos Club Medal of Merit, 2004

National Medal of Science, 1997

New York Academy of Medicine Award, 1999

Hadiah Nobel dalam Fisiologi atau Perubatan, 1962

Pingat Alumni Universiti Chicago 1998

Hadiah Kolej Universiti London  2000

University Medal at SUNY Stony Brook

DSc, University of Chicago, A.S, 1961

DSc, Indiana University, A.S, 1963

LLD, University of Notre Dame, A.S, 1965

DSc, Long Island University (CW Post), A.S, 1970

DSc, Adelphi University, A.S, 1972

DSc, Brandeis University, A.S, 1973

DSc, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, A.S, 1974

DSc, Hofstra University, A.S, 1976

DSc, Harvard University, A.S, 1978

DSc, Rockefeller University, A.S, 1980

DSc, Clarkson College of Technology, A.S, 1981

DSc, SUNY at Farmingdale, A.S, 1983

MD, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1986

DSc, Rutgers University, A.S, 1988

DSc, Bard College, A.S, 1991

DSc, University of Stellenbosch, Afrika Selatan, 1993

DSc, Fairfield University, A.S, 1993

DSc, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1993

DrHC, Charles University in Prague, Republik Czech, 1998

ScD, University of Dublin, Ireland, 2001

Chadarevian, S. (2002) Designs For Life: Molecular Biology After World War II. Cambridge University Press 0-521-57078-6

Chargaff, E. (1978) Heraclitean Fire. New York: Rockefeller Press.

Chomet, S., ed., (1994) D.N.A.: Genesis of a Discovery London: Newman-Hemisphere Press.

Collins, Francis. (2004) Coming to Peace With Science: Bridging the Worlds Between Faith and Biology. InterVarsity Press. 978-0-8308-2742-8

Collins, Francis. (2007) The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief Free Press. 978-1-4165-4274-2

Crick, F. H. C. (1988) What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery (Basic Books reprint edition, 1990) 0-465-09138-5

John Finch; 'A Nobel Fellow On Every Floor', Medical Research Council 2008, 381 pp, 978-1-84046-940-0; this book is all about the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friedberg, E.C.; "Sydney Brenner: A Biography", CSHL Press October 2010, 0-87969-947-7.

Friedburg, E. C. (2005) "The Writing Life of James D. Watson". "Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press" 0-87969-700-8

Hunter, G. (2004) Light Is A Messenger: the life and science of William Lawrence Bragg. Oxford University Press. 0-19-852921-X

Inglis, J., Sambrook, J. & Witkowski, J. A. (eds.) Inspiring Science: Jim Watson and the Age of DNA. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. 2003. 978-0-87969-698-6.

Judson, H. F. (1996). The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology, Expanded edition. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. 0-87969-478-5

Maddox, B. (2003). Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA. Harper Perennial. 0-06-098508-9

McEleheny, Victor K. (2003) Watson and DNA: Making a scientific revolution, Perseus. 0-7382-0341-6

Robert Olby; 1974 The Path to The Double Helix: Discovery of DNA. London: MacMillan. 0-486-68117-3; Definitive DNA textbook, with foreword by Francis Crick, revised in 1994 with a 9-page postscript.

Robert Olby; (2003) "Quiet debut for the double helix" Nature 421 (January 23): 402-405.

Robert Olby; "Francis Crick: Hunter of Life's Secrets", Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 978-0-87969-798-3, August 2009.

Ridley, M. (2006) Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code (Eminent Lives) New York: Harper Collins. 0-06-082333-X.

James D. Watson, "The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix, edited by Alexander Gann and Jan Witkowski" (2012) Simon & Schuster, 978-1-4767-1549-0.

Wilkins, M. (2003) The Third Man of the Double Helix: The Autobiography of Maurice Wilkins. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 0-19-860665-6.

The History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 4 (1870 to 1990), Cambridge University Press, 1992.