James D. Watson is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist best known as co-author, with Francis Crick, of the 1953 Nature paper proposing the double helix structure of DNA. This groundbreaking work earned Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material revolutionized the field of biology and laid the foundation for modern genetics.
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