James Dewey Watson

Watson, James Dewey (1928– ), U.S. biochemist. He shared with Francis Crick and Maurice H.F. Wilkins the 1962 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his work with Crick establishing the double-helix molecular model of DNA. His personalized account of the research, The Double Helix (1968), became a best-seller.

See also: Biochemistry; Deoxyribonucleic Acid.