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Known for
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Discovering the double-helix structure of DNA
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Sharing the 1962 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins for the discovery of the structure of DNA
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Career
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1950 Received his Ph.D. from the University of Indiana
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1951-1953 Discovered the structure of DNA while working with Francis Crick as a researcher at the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge
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1961 Became a full professor at Harvard University
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1968 Accepted a position as director of the Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory of Quantitative Biology
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1968 Wrote The Double Helix, a narrative of the discovery of the structure of DNA
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Did You Know
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Watson entered the University of Chicago at age 15.
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Watson was one of the first directors of the Human Genome Project, which mapped the entire sequence of human DNA in 2003.
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