James Watson
James Dewey Watson is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he co-authored with Francis Crick the academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. Watson, Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".
6 April 1928
Born on the same birth day (6 April): Arvid Horn • Clarke MacArthur • David Woodard • Douglas Hill • Franck Ongfiang • Georg Hólm • Karl Staaf • Moritz Seider • Myleene Klass • Philip Henry Gosse • Richard Loe • Walter Dandy
Born in the same month (April 1928): Hugh Hood • Jean-François Paillard • Jennifer Paterson • Johnny Griffin • Joseph Bernardin • Otto Piene • Serge Gainsbourg • Yves Klein