Today (April 6, 1928) is the birthday of James Dewey Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning American biologist who studied the molecular structure of DNA.
James Dewey Watson was born on
April 6, 1928, in Chicago to Mitchell and James D. Watson. He was born the only
son of Watson. The father was a businessman who came to the United States from
colonial English immigrants. Watson attended public schools, including Horace
Mann Grammar School in South Chicago and South Beach High School. He was
fascinated by bird watching, a hobby he shared with his father. He, therefore, considered it important in ornithology. Watson appeared on the popular radio
show Quiz Kids. It challenged bright young people to answer questions. Watson
received his BS degree in Zoology in 1947 from the University of Chicago.
Watson left the University of Chicago in 1947 to become a graduate student at
Indiana University. Inspired by Herman Joseph Muller's Bloomington, who won the Nobel Prize in 1946. He received
his PhD from Indiana University in 1950.
In the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, he collaborated with Francis Crick (1951) to study the molecular structure of DNA. M. H. The results of this study, based on F. Wilkins' infrared radiation effect research, were published as a research paper in 1953. Following that, Watson, along with Crick and Wilkins, received the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine. From 1989 to 19992 he was president of the (US) National Center for Human Genetic Research. Watson has made significant contributions to research in the fields of genetics, bacteriology, and cancer.
Watson has been the Director of
the Gold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) since 1968, greatly expanding the
scope of its funding and research. At CSHL, he shifted his research focus to
cancer research. It has also become a world-leading research centre in
molecular biology. In 1994, he began his presidency and served for 10 years. He
was later appointed president and served until his resignation in 2007 after
commenting that there was a genetic link between intelligence and race. Watson
has authored several science books. Gene Molecular Biology (1965) and his
best-selling book, The Double Helix (1968). Between 1988 and 1992, Watson
worked with the National Institutes of Health to help establish the Human
Genome Project. It completed the task of mapping the human genome in 2003.
Source By: Wikipedia
Information: Ramesh, Assistant
Professor of Physics, Nehru Memorial College, Puthanampatti.
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