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29 Sep 2008: I.R.J. Jack was born on 5 December 1923 in Edinburgh, and was educated at George Watson's (where he was John Welsh Classical Scholar) and Edinburgh University, taking a

6 Mar 2009: Juxtaposing the ancient and the modern, the beautiful and the scientific, a cast of Aphrodite stands close to a replica of Crick and Watson’s model of the double helix.

22 Dec 2005: Sculpting the origins of life. A sculpture of the double helix structure of DNA was unveiled at Clare College by Professor James Watson, one of the two scientists who first revealed

2 Oct 2017: Ramanujan and Cartwright in mathematics; Babbage, Turing and Wilkes in computing; Darwin, Watson-Crick-Franklin, Hodgkin and Sanger in biology; Trevelyan, Elton and Judt in history.

8 May 2017: Professor Christine J. Watson, Professor of Cell and Cancer Biology, University of Cambridge.

14 Jan 2010: Cambridge academics Sir Ronald Fisher and JBS Haldane, together with Sewall Wright, produced ground-breaking work in population genetics in the early 1900s, and James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the

12 Oct 2015: Director of Studies in Economics at Fitzwilliam College, Anna Watson, said: “The College is extremely proud that Angus Deaton’s groundbreaking work spanning microeconomics, macroeconomics and development economics has received such

11 Dec 2013: Watson and Sir Tim Hunt.

28 Sep 2009: Rosalind Franklin, the often forgotten Cambridge scholar whose X-Ray diffraction images proved vital to the discovery of DNA, deservedly receives equal billing alongside Francis Watson and James Crick.

25 Nov 2015: Francis Crick and James Watson.

22 May 2009: They had lunch at Pembroke College with academics and students, and then went on to meet Dr Helen Watson, Admissions Tutor at St John’s College. ... It was also valuable to hear Helen Watson’s suggestions about encouraging students to think about

20 Jul 2006: Tragically, Franklin died from cancer aged 37. The 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was subsequently awarded to Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick and James Watson for their work on DNA.