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By Dr Tushar Chauhan September 26, 2022
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The full name of Watson J is James Dewey Watson, born on April 6, 1928, in Chicago.
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He is a molecular biologist and earned his doctoral degree in Zoology from Indiana University, Bloomington in 1950.
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He married Elizabeth Lewis and they have two sons. His son Rufus is suffering from Schizophrenia.
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With his colleague Francis Crick, Watson postulated the chemical structure of DNA from the X-ray diffraction image captured by Franklin R.
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Watson won 20 different awards, including the Nobel Prize and 20 honorary doctorates during his career.
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James Watson was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for postulating the molecular structure of DNA.
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From 1988 to 1992, James Watson becomes the head of the Human genome project at NIH.
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James Watson is now 94, however, he loses his Noble Prize over his comment on racism.
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