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James D. Watson was director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York from 1968 to 1993 and is now its chancellor. He was the first director of the National Center for Human Genome Research of the National Institutes of Health from 1989 to 1992. A member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society, he has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Science, and, with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962.
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James D. Watson is chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and one of the discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule. With Dr. Francis Crick he was awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids.
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Nobel Laureate James D. Watson, who, along with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins discovered the structure of DNA, has always spoken his mind. Unfortunately, in a recent article in the Times of London, he went too far. His claim that Africans have inferior intelligence was quickly condemned and ridiculed, forcing Watson to resign as the chancellor of Long Island's renowned Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory the same month his new memoir, "Avoid Boring People," was published. Talk about bad timing.
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Scholar, teacher, author and scientific pioneer, James D. Watson has challenged the mysteries of life itself and charted a new path in mankind's endless search for truth. His intellectual courage and relentless pursuit of scientific knowledge have earned him the respect and admiration of his country and a permanent place as one of the great explorers of the 20th century.
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James D. Watson was born April 6, 1928, in Chicago, Illinois. At age 15 he entered the University of Chicago. He graduated in 1947 and went on to pursue graduate study in the biological sciences at Indiana University. There he came under the influence of some distinguished scientists, including Nobel laureate Hermann J. Muller, who were instrumental in shifting his interests from natural history toward genetics and biochemistry. In 1950 Watson successfully completed his doctoral research project on the effect of x-rays upon the multiplication of bacteriophages (viruses that attack bacterial cells).
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James D. Watson was born in Chicago. He received his Ph.D. in zoology in 1950 from Indiana University, through a fellowship for graduate study on the effects of hard X-rays on bacteriophage multiplication. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences and has been granted foreign membership in the Danish Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a consultant to the President's Scientific Advisory Committee.
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