Giants in Genomics: James Watson
James Watson and his British colleague Francis Crick discovered the double helix structure of DNA. For this fundamental finding James, Francis, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1962.
Topics
- James Watson
- Francis Crick
- British
- DNA
- double helix
- Nobel Prize
- physiology
- medicine
- Chicago
- Illinois
- University of Chicago
- American
- University of Copenhagen
- University of Cambridge
- Harvard University
- cancer
- neurobiology
- molecular genetics
- Human Genome Project
- National Institute of Health