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جیمز واتسون
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Also known as James Dewey Watson, James D. Watson

زیست‌شناس مولکولی، زیست‌فیزیک‌دان، جانورشناس و متخصّص علم ژنتیک آمریکایی

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James Dewey Watson is an American biologist, geneticist, zoologist, and biochemist born in Chicago in 1928. He was educated at Indiana University Bloomington and the University of Chicago, with Salvador Luria as his doctoral advisor. His professional career includes positions at Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and the United States National Institutes of Health. He is a member of the Royal Society, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Watson’s notable work includes the book The Double Helix and contributions to the sequencing of genetic material. He has received the Copley Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Lomonosov Gold Medal, and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His doctoral students include Mario Capecchi, H. Robert Horvitz, Peter Moore, and Joan A. Steitz, while other students include Richard Roberts, Phillip Sharp, and Ronald W. Davis.

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Died
1893
Works
65

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Chicago, Illinois, USA

James Watson is an American scientist who earned a B.Sc. degree in Zoology from the University of Chicago in 1947 and received a Ph.D. degree in Zoology in 1950 from Indiana University. He is the co-discoverer of the double helix structure of DNA in 1953, and shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research.

Known for

  • Genius of Britain — Self2010
  • Rosalind Franklin: DNA's Dark Lady — Self2003
  • Reich: Three Tales — Self2002
  • Hyperland — Self (archive footage)1990
  • Horizon — Self1964

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1962

    “for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Family name
Watson
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Chicago
Place of death
East Northport
Occupation
scientist
Employer
California Institute of Technology
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
American English
Religion
atheism
Doctoral advisor
Salvador Luria
Student of
Hermann Joseph Muller
Doctoral student
Joan A. Steitz
Image
James D. Watson (cropped).jpg
Significant event
sequencing
Political ideology
scientific racism
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Commons category
James D. Watson
member of
Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
date of birth
1928-04-06
Erdős number
4
student
Ronald W. Davis
name in native language
James Dewey Watson
nominated for
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
birth name
James Dewey Watson
topic's main category
Category:James Watson
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Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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has characteristic
Nobel disease
start of work period
1953-00-00
date of death
2025-11-06
end of work period
2025-00-00
pseudonym
el Caligula de la biología
interested in
genetics
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