James Watson

Nobel Symposia

During the Nobel Centennial Symposia ‘Beyond Genes’, held on 6 December 2001 at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Dr. James D. Watson gave the ‘Introductory Comments’ about the history behind the discovery of DNA.

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