Sonneborn, and by S. Again he worked with bacterial viruses, attempting to study the fate of DNA of infecting virus particles. During the spring of , he went with Kalckar to the Zoological Station at Naples.
This greatly stimulated him to change the direction of his research toward the structural chemistry of nucleic acids and proteins. Fortunately this proved possible when Luria, in early August , arranged with John Kendrew for him to work at the Cavendish Laboratory, where he started work in early October He soon met Crick and discovered their common interest in solving the DNA structure.
Their first serious effort, in the late fall of , was unsatisfactory. Their second effort based upon more experimental evidence and better appreciation of the nucleic acid literature, resulted, early in March , in the proposal of the complementary double-helical configuration.
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These were not Watson's first statements that stirred controversy. At a lecture at the University of California at Berkeley in , the Nobel laureate suggested a link between exposure to sunlight and sexual drive.
Only an English patient. In another controversial move, Watson auctioned off his Nobel Prize at Christie's in December , the first time a Nobel Prize was sold by a living Nobel laureate. Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, who was listed as Russia's richest man by Forbes magazine, purchased the Nobel Prize and returned it to Watson. Over the course of his long career, James D.
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James Polk was the 11th president of the United States, known for his territorial expansion of the nation chiefly through the Mexican-American War. In Watson joined the Medical Research Council Unit at Cavendish Laboratories in Cambridge where several important X-ray crystallographic projects were in progress.
From he took up several positions at Harvard University and in became director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory CSHL , helping it become a leading insitution in genetic research. Watson is most strongly associated with the determination of the structure of DNA as a double helix, which he published with Crick in Awarded a Nobel Prize for this work alongside Crick and Maurice Wilkins, this research opened up a new understanding of biology and genetics, laying the foundation for the development of recombinant DNA which helped spawn the new biotechnology industry in the s.
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