Baker, Tania A.

James D. Watson was Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratoryfrom 1968 to 1993 and is now its President. He spent his undergraduateyears at the University of Chicago and received his Ph.D. in 1950 fromIndiana University. Between 1950 and 1953, he did postdoctoral researchin Copenhagen and Cambridge, England. While at Cambridge, he began thecollaboration that resulted in the elucidation of the double-helicalstructure of DNA in 1953. (For this discovery, Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962.) Later in1953, he went to the California Institute of Technolo...