Interesting facts

* In 1949, James Watson published on of the landmark papers in phage genetics. In 1950 his PhD thesis was a study of the effect of hard x-rays on bacteriophage multiplication.
*in 1955, James Watson moved on to Harvard university and taught biology til 1976 and conduced research alongside.
* in 1988,his success led to his appointment as the head of the genome project at the NIH.