James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist and zoologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick. Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".
Watson earned degrees at the University of Chicago (B.S., 1947) and Indiana University (Ph.D., 1950). Following a post-doctoral year at Copenhagen University with Herman Kalckar and Ole Maaloe, Watson next worked at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory in England, where he first met his future collaborator and friend Francis Crick.
From 1956 to 1976, Watson was on the faculty of the Harvard University Biology Department, promoting research in molecular biology. From 1968 he served as director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) on Long Island, New York, greatly expanding its level of funding and research. At CSHL, he shifted his research emphasis to the study of cancer, along with making it a world leading research center in molecular biology. In 1994, he started as president and served for 10 years. He was then appointed chancellor, serving until 2007 when he resigned his position after making controversial comments claiming a link between intelligence and geographical ancestry. Between 1988 and 1992, Watson was associated with the National Institutes of Health, helping to establish the Human Genome Project.
Lieutenant General Sir James Watson KCB was Commander-in-Chief, India.
Watson was commissioned into the 14th Regiment of Foot reaching the rank of Major in 1802. He was appointed Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion of his Regiment in 1807 and served in India and Batavia.
In March 1835 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief, India and continued in that role until September; two years later he was promoted to Lieutenant General and made Colonel of the Regiment. He was also an active member of the Army and Navy Club.
He lived in Wendover in Buckinghamshire.
James A. K. Watson was a Scottish footballer who played as a forward.
Watson played club football for Rangers, and made one appearance for Scotland in 1878, scoring one goal. He later served as a committee member, vice-president, and president of Rangers.
Ive seen the world from another eye
To get another point of view of the mankind
As I see them today
See them through the eyes of a child
Innocent as a new born babe
Fascinated and amazed
By the lesser little thing
Seen from that angle there is no conscience of acts
No knowledge of the basic rules
Seen as ourselves we feel so concern
Behaviour, reaction
Now the boy is lost
People are on their own