BIOLOGIST

James Watson

1928 - Today

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James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he co-authored with Francis Crick the academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Watson has received more than 4,037,086 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 82 in 2019). James Watson is the 12th most popular biologist (down from 10th in 2019), the 176th most popular biography from United States (down from 120th in 2019) and the most popular American Biologist.

James Watson is most famous for being one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA.

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  • 85

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, James Watson ranks 12 out of 1,097. Before him are Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Ernst Haeckel, Konrad Lorenz, Georges Cuvier, and Rosalind Franklin. After him are Karl Landsteiner, Alfred Russel Wallace, Francis Crick, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Thomas Henry Huxley, and Élie Metchnikoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, James Watson ranks 12. Before him are Ennio Morricone, John Forbes Nash Jr., Noam Chomsky, Agnès Varda, Eduard Shevardnadze, and Serge Gainsbourg. After him are Chinghiz Aitmatov, Roger Vadim, Osamu Tezuka, Philip K. Dick, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Rinus Michels.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Watson ranks 176 out of 20,380. Before him are Judy Garland (1922), Samuel L. Jackson (1948), Sitting Bull (1831), Tom Cruise (1962), John Travolta (1954), and Linus Pauling (1901). After him are Ray Bradbury (1920), Clark Gable (1901), Robert K. Merton (1910), Geronimo (1829), Gene Cernan (1934), and Tim Cook (1960).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, James Watson ranks 1. After him are Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866), Rachel Carson (1907), Barbara McClintock (1902), Dian Fossey (1932), Sylvia Earle (1935), George Beadle (1903), Irwin Rose (1926), Linda B. Buck (1947), Stanley B. Prusiner (1942), Hermann Joseph Muller (1890), and John B. Calhoun (1917).

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