# James Watson (@james-watson)

James Watson was a American molecular biologist. With Francis Crick, Watson proposed the DNA double-helix model in 1953, using evidence that included work by Rosalind Franklin, Raymond Gosling and Maurice Wilkins.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from James Watson's public record._

## Topics

- [A Contested Legacy](/@james-watson/a-contested-legacy.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Institutions and Books](/@james-watson/institutions-and-books.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Principal Contribution](/@james-watson/principal-contribution.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1962/watson/facts/
- blog: https://www.cshl.edu/personal-collections/james-d-watson/
- blog: https://www.cshl.edu/cshl-trustees-statement/

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "james-watson", "question": "…"}`.