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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>

'''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>

==Rosalind Franklin controversy==

==Rosalind Franklin attribution==

His personal and informal account of this discovery "The Double Helix"  aroused some controversy with its frank account of the competitive nature of scientific research. In particular, he revealed that the X-ray diffraction pattern image in "Photo 51", a image created by [[Rosalind Franklin]]'s team, informed him of the alpha helix structure of the DNA molecule. After Franklin had announced her plans to leave the Kings College lab, Wilkins showed Watson the image. Wilkins had concluded that Franklin would appropriately be leaving her data to her successors. Neither Watson nor Wilkins opted to contact Franklin for permission, not did they inform her later of their action. Franklin died before the Nobel Prize was awarded.

His personal and informal account of this discovery "The Double Helix"  aroused some controversy with its frank account of the competitive nature of scientific research. In particular, he revealed that the X-ray diffraction pattern image in "Photo 51", a image created by [[Rosalind Franklin]]'s team, informed him of the alpha helix structure of the DNA molecule. After Franklin had announced her plans to leave the Kings College lab, Wilkins showed Watson the image. Wilkins had concluded that Franklin would appropriately be leaving her data to her successors. Neither Watson nor Wilkins opted to contact Franklin for permission, not did they inform her later of their action. Franklin died before the Nobel Prize was awarded.