James Watson#
| Membership Number: | 1870 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1998 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1962/watson-bio.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1961 Professor at the Harvard Biology Department
- 1958 Associate Professor at the Harvard Biology Department
- 1956 Assistant Professor at the Harvard Biology Department
- 1953 - 1955 Senior Research Fellow in Biology at the California Institute of Technology
- 1950 - 1951 Merck Fellow of the National Research Council in Copenhagen
- 1950 Ph.D. in Zoology at University in Bloomington
Fields of Scholarship
- Double helix structure of DNA
- Classical biology
- Molecular biology
- Ecology
- Developmental biology
- Taxonomy
- Physiology
Honours and Awards
- 1998 Member of Academia Europaea
- 1962 The Nobel Prize for Psychology of Medicine
- 1962 The Research Corporation Prize
- 1960 The Lasker Award
- 1959 The John Collins Warren Prize of the Massachusetts General Hospital
- 1959 The Eli Lilly Award in Biochemistry
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences
- Foreign member of the Danish Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Consultant to the President's Scientific Advisory Committee
