US biologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1962 for the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA and determining the significance of this structure in the replication and transfer of genetic information. He shared the prize with his co-worker Francis
Crick.
Crick and Watson published their work on the proposed structure of DNA in 1953, and explained how genetic information could be coded.
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