Why Famous:Won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the structure of DNA and his discovery along with Francis Crick of the double helix structure.
1953-02-28Francis Crick and James Watson discover the chemical structure of DNA-molecule (double-helix polymer)
1953-04-25Francis Crick and James Watson's discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is published in "Nature" magazine
1962-10-18 James Watson (US), Francis Crick (UK) and Maurice Wilkins (UK) win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work in determining the structure of DNA
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