Members of our faculty have been honored with the highest accolades available. Recognized by their peers around the world, they bring their scientific acumen and achievements to both the lab and the classroom.
with David Baltimore and Howard Martin Temin, for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell.
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with MaxDelbrück and Alfred Hershey, for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses.
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for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation.
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with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material.
Photo of James D. Watson, 1960. UAV 605.270.5P (1). Harvard University Archives.
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