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James Watson Biography: Co-Discoverer of DNA's Double Helix
James Watson was a pioneer molecular biologist who is credited, along with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, with discovering the double helix structure of the DNA molecule.
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The trio won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962 for their work.
Early life
James Dewey Watson was born in Chicago, Ill., on April 6, 1928. He attended Horace Mann Grammar School and then South Shore High School.
At the age of 15, he transferred to the University of Chicago in an experimental scholarship program for gifted youngsters. A lifelong interest in birds led him to study biology, and he was awarded his Bachelor of Science degree in zoology in 1947.
He switched to genetics shortly after reading Erwin Schrodinger’s seminal book, "What is Life?"
After being turned down by the California Institute of Technology and Harvard, Watson won a scholarship to the University of Indiana for post-graduate study.
In 1950, he was awarded his doctora