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    James Watson was born in 1928 in Chicago. In 1953, Watson and his colleague Francis Crick published a letter in Nature revealing that they had discovered the double helix structure of DNA. In 1962, Watson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Crick and Maurice Wilkins, for determining the double helix structure of DNA through their research in the early 1950s.

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    James Watson was born in 1928 in Chicago. In 1953, Watson and his colleague Francis Crick published a letter in Nature revealing that they had discovered the double helix structure of DNA. In 1962, Watson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Crick and Maurice Wilkins, for determining the double helix structure of DNA through their research in the early 1950s.

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    James Watson was born in 1928 in Chicago. In 1953, Watson and his colleague Francis Crick published a letter in Nature revealing that they had discovered the double helix structure of DNA. In 1962, Watson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Crick and Maurice Wilkins, for determining the double helix structure of DNA through their research in the early 1950s.

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    TIMELINE OF

    JAMES WATSON

    April 6,
    1928

    James Watson was born in


    Chicago. Watson, one of two
    sons, shared a passion for bird
    watching with his father, who
    was a tax collector. He originally
    interested in becoming an
    orthotologist.
    April 2,
    1953

    Nature published Crick and


    Watson's letter on the molecular
    structure of nucleic acids

    April 25,
    1953

    Nature published three


    articles showing that the
    molecular structure of DNA
    is a double helix

    October
    18, 1962

    Nobel Prize in Physiology or


    Medicine awarded for
    determining the structure
    of DNA

    October
    19, 1962

    Nobel Prize
    awarded for
    discovering the
    structure of DNA

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