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James Watson

American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate

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born: 1928
died: 2025
age at death: 97
known for: biologist, geneticist, zoologist

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James Dewey Watson was an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick co-authored an academic paper on DNA entitled, "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid". Published in the scientific journal Nature, the paper proposed the existence of the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, having built on research by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling.

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