11/16/2012

The Double Helix and Beyond: Catching Up With James Watson

James Watson. Image courtesy of Herbert Gutfreund/Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives
James Watson. Image courtesy of Herbert Gutfreund/Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives

In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick pieced together the structure of DNA—the now-famous double helix. To celebrate the release of a new annotated and illustrated edition of his 1968 book, The Double Helix, James Watson reflects on the groundbreaking discovery.

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James Watson

James Watson is the author of The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix (Simon & Schuster, Nov. 2012) and a chancellor emeritus at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, New York.

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