Watson
James Dewey Watson was born in Chicago on April 6th 1928. Watson was most notably awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962[1] along side Francis Harry Compton Crick and Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins. Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA via x-ray diffraction[2], their model of a double helical configuration showed how a DNA molecule could duplicate itself.[3]
References
- ↑ http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1962/watson-facts.html
- ↑ Rastogi, S. C. (2003). Cell and Molecular Biology. New Age International (P) Ltd, Publishers.fckLRPage 90
- ↑ http://www.biography.com/people/james-d-watson-9525139#early-years