
James Watson
Schauspiel·6. April 1928·† 6. November 2025 — 97 Jahre·Chicago, Illinois, USA
James Watson is an American scientist who earned a B.Sc. degree in Zoology from the University of Chicago in 1947 and received a Ph.D. degree in Zoology in 1950 from Indiana University. He is the co-discoverer of the double helix structure of DNA in 1953, and shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research.




