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James Watson is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist, who is best known for his co-discovery of the structure of DNA with Francis Crick in 1953. Watson was born on April 6, 1928, in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Indiana. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Zoology from the University of Chicago in 1947 and a Ph.D. in Zoology from Indiana University in 1950.
In 1951, Watson began working at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in England, where he met Francis Crick. Together, they worked to determine the structure of DNA, and in 1953, they published a paper in the journal Nature that described the double-helix structure of DNA.
Watson continued to work in genetics and molecular biology throughout his career, and he served as the director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from 1968 to 1993. He has received numerous awards for his contributions to science, including the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 (shared with Crick and Maurice Wilkins) for their discovery of the structure of DNA.