!!!James Watson
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James Watson passed away November 6, 2025.
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__Positions Held__
*1961 Professor at the Harvard Biology Department
*1958 Associate Professor at the Harvard Biology Department
*1956 Assistant Professor at the Harvard Biology Department
*1953 - 1955 Senior Research Fellow in Biology at the California Institute of Technology 
*1950 - 1951 Merck Fellow of the National Research Council in Copenhagen
*1950 Ph.D. in Zoology at University in Bloomington
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__Fields of Scholarship__
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__Honours and Awards__
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*1959 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry
*1960 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
*1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*1977 Presidential Medal of Freedom
*1985 EMBO Membership
*1986 Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
*1993 Copley Medal of the Royal Society
*1997 National Medal of Science
*2000 Liberty Medal
*2001 Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences
*2002 Gairdner Foundation International Award
*2002 Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)
*2005 Honorary Member of Royal Irish Academy
*2005 Othmer Gold Medal
*2008 CSHL Double Helix Medal Honoree
*2010 Honorary Fellow, the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution
*2011 Irish America Hall of Fame, inducted March 2011
*2011 John J. Carty Award in molecular biology from the National Academy of Sciences
*Honorary degrees
**DSc, University of Chicago, US, 1961
**DSc, Indiana University, US, 1963
**LLD, University of Notre Dame, US, 1965
**DSc, Long Island University (CW Post), US, 1970
**DSc, Adelphi University, US, 1972
**DSc, Brandeis University, US, 1973
**DSc, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, US, 1974
**DSc, Hofstra University, US, 1976
**DSc, Harvard University, US, 1978
**DSc, Rockefeller University, US, 1980
**DSc, Clarkson College of Technology, US, 1981
**DSc, Rutgers University, US, 1988
**DSc, Bard College, US, 1991
**DSc, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1993
**DSc, Fairfield University, US, 1993
**DSc, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1993
**DrHC, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, 1998
**ScD, University of Dublin, Ireland, 2001
*Professional and honorary affiliations
**American Academy of Arts and Sciences
**American Association for Cancer Research
**American Philosophical Society
**American Society of Biological Chemists
**Athenaeum Club, London, member
**Cambridge University, Honorary Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge
**Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Chancellor Emeritus; Honorary Trustee; Oliver R. Grace Professor Emeritus
**European Molecular Biology Organization, member since 1985
**National Academy of Sciences
**Oxford University, Newton-Abraham Visiting Professor
**Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
**Royal Society, Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) since 1981
**Russian Academy of Sciences
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