Professor James Watson | In Conversation with Professor Matt Ridley | The Cambridge Union
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Channel: Cambridge Union · 2012 · Science & Technology
Date recorded: 07/03/2011 "Looking Back at the Finding of the Double Helix" James Watson is a Nobel Prize winning geneticist and molecular biologist who was awarded the 1962 prize in Medicine as one of the discoverers of the structure of DNA. Based on this work, he went on to write the seminal textbook 'The Molecular Biology of the Gene' and the best-selling 'The Double Helix'. He served as director and president of the Cold Springs Habour Laboratory in New York - one of the world's leading centres for cancer and neurobiology research - for 35 years. More recently, Professor Watson helped found the Human Genome Project. His autobiography, 'Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science' was published in 2007. In this video, Professor Watson talks with Professor Matt Ridley, a journalist, writer and businessman. In 2004 he won the National Academies Book Award for 'Nature via Nurture', and in 2007 he won the Davis Prize from the US History of Science Society for his biography of Francis Crick.
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