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Article: Watson, James Dewey
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Watson, James Dewey
AMERICAN BIOCHEMIST
1928
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The American biochemist James Dewey Watson was a discoverer of the double-
helical
structure of the deoxyribonucleic acid molecule.
James D. Watson was born April 6, 1928, in Chicago, Illinois. At age fifteen he entered the University of Chicago. He graduated in 1947 and went on to pursue graduate study in the biological sciences at Indiana University. There he came under the influence of some distinguished scientists, including Nobel laureate Hermann J. Muller, who were instrumental in shifting his interests from natural history toward genetics and biochemistry. In 1950 Watson successfully completed his doctoral research project ...