James Watson always wanted to be a part of something ... His early interest in science was bird watching and he graduated from the University of Chicago at age 19 with a degree in Zoology.

But James Watson and Francis Crick's claim was a valid ... were in the hunt at Cambridge University. At King's College in London, Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins were studying DNA.

Victor McElheny has written a brilliant life story of James Watson, coinciding with the ... influenced by Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith, to the University of Chicago, where he learned the importance ...

In the early 1950s, the race to discover DNA was on. At Cambridge University, graduate student Francis Crick and research fellow James Watson (b. 1928) had become interested, impressed especially ...