Background Information

- Date of Birth: April 6.1928
- Place of Brith: Chicago, Lillinois
- Still alive 56 yrs. old
- Field of Science: Genetics

Watson wrote The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, published in 1968. This book was the first of its kind, being a gossipy account of the inner workings of the scientific world, and has never been out of print.

- American molecular biologist, geneticist and zoologist