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Mar 3, 2022 · James D. Watson, Ph.D. Discoverer of the DNA Molecule. Biography. Profile. Interview. Gallery. Suddenly to see the molecule which is responsible for heredity, and makes possible human existence, was a big step in man's understanding of himself in the same sense that Darwin knew that the human species wasn't fixed — that we were changing.
Many people believe that American biologist James Watson and English physicist Francis Crick discovered DNA in the 1950s. In reality, this is not the case. Rather, DNA was first identified in...
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962 was awarded jointly to Francis Harry Compton Crick, James Dewey Watson and Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"
