James Dewey Watson

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James Dewey Watson is an American molecular biologist, and a co-discoverer of the structure and function of DNA in 1953.

Watson, Francis 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".  Rosalind Franklin, also instrumental in the discovery, died in 1958.  Watson studied at the University of Chicago and Indiana University and subsequently worked at the University of Cambridge where he first met his future collaborator and friend Francis Crick. (Wikipedia)

Watson is the second person ‎(after Craig Venter)‎ to allow publication of his genome sequence.  We hope that one day knowledge of his genealogy will add depth to the understanding that his genome provides.

Watson is Scotch/Irish from his maternal grandparents surnamed Mitchell and Gleason.  His paternal Watson and Ford lines have many roots in colonial New England, with most immigrants on these lines found so far arriving during the Great Migration of the Puritans from 1620-1643. One exception is Edward Burbeck (b. 1683 Yorkshire, England, reportedly of Scottish parents), who sailed to Boston in 1706, and was the ancestor of several Revolutionary patriots.

Average Lifespan for women (n=137): 67
Longest life among women:
Experience ADAMS ‎(I141)‎
Birth 9 November 1663 21 Boston, Suffolk, MA
Death 15 May 1762 ‎(Age 98)‎ Stoughton, Norfolk, MA

Average Lifespan for men (n=151): 69
Longest life among men:
Joshua DEWEY ‎(I70)‎
Birth 7 April 1767 35 36 Lebanon, CT
Death 24 February 1864 ‎(Age 96)‎ Watertown, NY, USA

Average Lifespan: 68 (n=289)

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James Dewey WATSON Nobel Laureate ‎(I1)‎ Birth 6 April 1928 30 29 St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA Loading...

James Dewey WATSON ‎(I2)‎ Birth 10 December 1897 21 22 MN, USA Death December 1967 ‎(Age 69)‎ IL, USA Loading... Thomas Tolman WATSON ‎(I17)‎ Birth 28 April 1876 28 24 IL, USA Death Yes Loading... Nellie Dewey FORD ‎(I16)‎ Birth May 1875 43 36 Geneva, WI, USA Death Date Unknown Loading... Margaret Jean MITCHELL ‎(I3)‎ Birth 1899 44 37 IL, USA Death 1957 ‎(Age 58)‎ Chicago, IL, USA Loading... Lauchlin Alexander MITCHELL ‎(I5)‎ Birth 1855 Glasgow, Scotland Death about 1913 ‎(Age 58)‎ Outside Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, IL, USA Loading... Elizabeth M. GLEASON ‎(I6)‎ Birth about 1862 Michigan City, Indiana Death after 1920 ‎(Age 58)‎ Loading...

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