James Watson is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist best known for co-discovering the double helix structure of DNA, along with Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin's data. Their groundbreaking work in the early 1950s laid the foundation for modern genetics and has had a profound impact on the fields of biology and medicine. Watson was born on April 6, 1920, in Chicago, Illinois. He earned his Ph.D.
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