James Watson | Girls, Genes and Gamow
Recorded Feb 12, 2002
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James D. Watson is best known for his discovery of the structure of DNA, for which he shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins. He is the president of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a facility that pursues high-level research on cancer, plant molecular biology and cell biochemistry.
Interview by Art Caplan
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