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James Watson

noun

United States geneticist who (with Crick in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1928). Synonyms: James Dewey Watson, Watson.

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... we see above Tarrytown many superb residences, notably "Rockwood," the home of William Rockefeller, of the Standard Oil Company. The estate of General James Watson Webb is also near at hand. Passing Scarborough Landing, with the Hook Mountain and Ball Mountains on ...

— The Hudson - Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention • Wallace Bruce

... taking a somewhat Gallican position, when he chanced to meet Genet at dinner in New York. Conversation with that gentleman caused a change in his views, and it was during this visit to New York that Mr. James Watson proposed to him to establish a newspaper there in the defense of Washington's administration. With his ardent attachment to Washington, and his adhesion generally to the federal party, he accepted the invitation, and established the "American Minerva," ...

— Noah Webster - American Men of Letters • Horace E. Scudder

Words linked to "James Watson" : geneticist, James Dewey Watson, Watson