James D. Watson Research Paper

James D. Watson was born on April 6, 1928 in
St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.
His parents was James D. Watson and Jean Mitchell. The first school
he went was Horace Mann Grammar School. He had atteneded
there for 8 years. For highschool he went to South Shore High School
for 2 years. He then received a tuition scholoarship for the University
of Chicago. In 1943 during the summer he enetered their expereimental
four-year college.

In 1947-1950 James graduated from the University of Chicago in 1947
with a bachelors of Science in zoolgy. He studied zoolgy because
he had interest in birds at a young age that led to an interest
in genetics. In 1948-1959 he went to the University of Idiana where
he studied more about zoology so he could

receive his doctorate
in zoology. In 1950, He received his doctorate in zoology.

James went to Naples,Italy to attend a confrence where he listen
people tallk about the stuctures of DNA. All that lecturing
made Watson want to study DNA molcule. On October
1951 at Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England he had met
a bioligist named Francis Crick. Both of them are interested in
the structure of DNA. They both tried to create a model, but
it failed.

James and Francis countiuned to be partners they both
did research on some scientist one of them was Rosalind Franklin.
They both discovered that the DNA molecule is made up of two
chains of molecules that form a double helix or twisting spiral
construction. James continued his eeducation in California
Institute of Technology.
In 1962, James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Noble Prize in Physiology and Medicine. Rosalind has some contributions for giving them infromation, but she passed away in 1958. In 1968, James realeased a book called, “The Double Helix” which describes how the stucture of DNA was discovered. In the same year he marries Elizabeth Lewis and they have two sons. In 2007, James makes history by becoming the first person who found a precise order of the molecules in his DNA he found out. He is still living today in 2015 he is 87.