Modern genetics can be seen as the result of the integration of three lines of investigation: breeding tests, cytology, and biochemistry. Classical genetics could address the question of how the gene was transmitted, but it could not explain how genes...

James Watson, b. 1928. The American biologist was a discoverer of the double-helical structure of the deoxyribonucleic acid...

Geneticist 1928- James Dewey Watson was the codiscoverer of the structure of DNA. He has also made major contributions to research in genetics and molecular biology as an administrator, and has written widely read and influential books for both...

1928- American Molecular Biologist In 1962 James Dewey Watson shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine with Francis Crick (1916- ) and Maurice Wilkins (1916- ) for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and its...

(born April 6, 1928, Chicago, Ill., U.S.) American geneticist and biophysicist who played a crucial role in the discovery of the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the substance that is the basis of heredity. For this accomplishment he...

(born April 6, 1928, Chicago, Ill., U.S.) U.S. geneticist and biophysicist. He earned his Ph.D. at Indiana University in 1950. Using X-ray diffraction techniques, he began work in Britain with Francis Crick on the problem of DNA structure. In 1952 he...

James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA. Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for...