James Dewey Watson
1928 - 2025
- Born
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06 April 1928
Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Died
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6 November 2025
Hospice on Long Island, New York State, USA
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 09/04/1981
- Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 53
- Occupation
- Molecular biologist and geneticist
- Relationships
- Parents: Jean (née Mitchell) and James D. Watson, businessman descended mostly from colonial English immigrants to America. Spouse: (m. 1968) Elizabeth Watson (1968-2025) Children: Rufus (b. 1970) and Duncan (b. 1972).
- Catalogue
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Author of
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Referee's report by Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, on a paper 'The complementary structure of deoxyribonucleic acid' by Francis Harry Compton Crick and James Dewey Watson
Creator: Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin Reference number: RR/79/230