JAMES D. WATSON

James D. Watson (b. 1928, Chicago) is President of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. He is most famous for his discovery, jointly with Francis Crick, of the double helix structure of DNA in Cambridge, England, in 1953. Watson and Crick and Maurice Wilkins were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 “for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nuclear acids and its significance for information transfer in living material.” Dr. Watson's career included stints at the California Institute of Technology and Harvard University and from 1968 to 1993, he was Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He was also the Director of the National Center for Human Genome Research of the National Institutes of Health from 1989 to 1992…