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Definition of James Watson

1. Noun. United States geneticist who (with Crick in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1928).

Medical Definition of James Watson

1. An American biochemist and alumnus of Indiana University born in 1928 who was one of three people to win the Nobel Prize in 1962 for the category of physiology or medicine. He and Francis Crick, an English biologist, discovered the double-stranded helix structure of the DNA molecule and built the Watson-Crick model of this structure. Their work was heavily based on the work of Maurice Wilkins (who also won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1962) and Rosalind Franklin (who died before the 1962 Nobel Prize winners were selected). The model they postulated is the accepted model used today. Lived: 1928- (13 Nov 1997)

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Literary usage of James Watson

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1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1824)
"... James Watson the elder James Watson the younger Thomas Preston and John Hooper and other false traitors should thereupon and therefrom make and utter ..."

2. The Assassination of President Lincoln: And the Trial of the Conspirators by David E. Herold, Benn Pitman (1865)
"William Hastings Kerr, of the city and district of Montreal, esquire, advocate, being duly sworn, doth depose and swear that he knows James Watson Wallace, ..."

3. Reports of Cases, Determined at Nisi Prius, in the Courts of King's Bench by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Thomas Starkie (1820)
"... and also the said Ribbons and Cockades and the said James Watson the elder and James Watson the younger with Force and Arms maliciously and traitorously ..."

4. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1813)
"Proceedings on Error in an Action of False Imprisonment by DRYDEN LEACH,* against JOHN MONEY, James Watson, and ROBERT BLACKMORE, three of the King's ..."

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