James D. Watson

James Dewey Watson was born in Chicago in 1928 and displayed a precocious interest in science from an early age, entering the University of Chicago at fifteen. He earned his doctorate in zoology from Indiana University at twenty-two and traveled to Cambridge, England, where his fateful collaboration with Francis Crick led to the elucidation of DNA's double-helix structure in 1953. This discovery earned Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Double Helix.