'''James Dewey Watson''' is an American geneticist who, with [[Francis Crick]], discovered the double helical structure of the [[DNA]] molecule. For this work he received the [[Nobel Prize]] for Medicine in 1962 together with Crick and Maurice Wilkins. In 1968 he became director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Island NY and in from 1988 helped direct [[The Human Genome Project]]
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'''James Dewey Watson''' is an American geneticist who, with [[Francis Crick]], discovered the double helical structure of the [[DNA]] molecule. For this work he received the [[Nobel Prize]] for Medicine in 1962 together with Crick and Maurice Wilkins. In 1968 he became director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Island NY and in from 1988 helped direct [[The Human Genome Project]]. He is described as brilliant, outspoken and eccentric and that he is elitist about intelligent people.<ref>http://www.dnaftb.org/19/bio.html</ref>