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In this 3 page paper, the life of James Dewey Watson is explored. From his Nobel Prize to his questionable statements, what it boils down to is how influential of a man he has become. There are 5 works cited.
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Harvard and CalTech rejected him for their graduate programs because they could not appreciate his background in the classics and bird watching. He ultimately graduated in 1950 from the University
of Indiana with a Ph.D. in genetics (Kumm 2010) and eventually helped to discover the double-helix structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), earning him a Nobel Prize. The year after
he graduated from the University of Indiana, Watson started working with F. H. C. Crick in Cambridge on the molecular structure of DNA ("James Dewey Watson" 2009). In 1953, they
published their findings and were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize. M. H. F. Wilkins was also a awarded as Watson and Crick based a part of their research on Wilkinss
X-ray diffraction. Unfortunately for Watson, not everyone agreed with how he went about publishing his findings in a book called The Double Helix. He upset many people because he portrayed
his colleagues in a degrading manor (Johnson 2010). His uncompromising and abrasive approach to biology brings him an incredible amount of criticism. His work with the Human Genome Project, which
was named head of in 1988, is "the most ambitious, generously funded endeavor in biology" (Kumm 2010, para. 4), makes his abrasiveness an even bigger issue with critics. In
2007, Watson made the worst statement hes ever made. Watson told the London Sunday Times that he was "gloomy" about Africa because social policy states that Africans are as intelligent
as we are, but testing shows otherwise. To dig himself in a bigger hole, he said that while he wanted to believe in equality, "people who have to deal with
black employees find this not true" (Shapiro 2008). While statements like this ultimately caused him to lose his job and gained him a terrible reputation, he is a man who
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