"Nobel Prize in Medicine" James Watson Signed UPPER DECK Card Todd Mueller COA

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"Nobel Prize in Medicine" James Watson Signed UPPER DECK Card Honoring The Human Genome Project.
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James Dewey Watson
KBE
(born April 6, 1928) 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". In subsequent years, it has been recognized that Watson and his colleagues did not properly attribute colleague
Rosalind Franklin
for her contributions to the discovery of the double helix structure.
Watson earned degrees at the
University of Chicago
(
BS
, 1947) and
Indiana University
(
PhD
, 1950). Following a post-doctoral year at the
University of Copenhagen
with
Herman Kalckar
and Ole Maaløe, Watson worked at the
University of Cambridge
's
Cavendish Laboratory
in England, where he first met his future collaborator Francis Crick. From 1956 to 1976, Watson was on the faculty of the
Harvard University
Biology Department, promoting research in molecular biology. From 1968 Watson served as director of
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
(CSHL), greatly expanding its level of funding and research. At CSHL, he shifted his research emphasis to the study of
cancer
, along with making it a world-leading research center in molecular biology. In 1994, he started as president and served for 10 years. He was then appointed chancellor, serving until he resigned in 2007 after making comments claiming that there is a genetic link between
intelligence and race
. In 2019, following the broadcast of a documentary in which Watson reiterated these views on race and genetics, CSHL revoked his honorary titles and severed all ties with him. Watson has written many science books, including the textbook
Molecular Biology of the Gene
(1965) and his bestselling book
The Double Helix
(1968). Between 1988 and 1992, Watson was associated with the
National Institutes of Health
, helping to establish the
Human Genome Project
, which completed the task of mapping the human genome in 2003.