Fact 1
James Watson was born on April 6, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois.
Fact 2
During his undergraduate years, James Watson was primarily interested in the field of ornithology. In 1947 he received a B.Sc. degree in Zoology. He began his doctoral research in 1948 under the direction of the Italian Biologist Salvador Luria.
Fact 3
In 1949 James Watson published one of the landmark papers in phage genetics. In 1950 his PhD thesis was a study of the effect of hard X-rays on bacteriophage multiplication.
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