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James Watson

American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate1928 to 2025

Wikidata names Salvador Luria as doctoral advisor, lists 5 doctoral students, names Hermann Joseph Muller as teacher, and lists 6 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Salvador Luria

Students on Wikidata5

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stated by Wikidata
Mario Capecchi
born 1937
stated by Wikidata
Peter Moore
born 1939
stated by Wikidata
Joan A. Steitz
born 1941
stated by Wikidata
Roger Hendrix
born 1943
stated by Wikidata
H. Robert Horvitz
born 1947

Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Hermann Joseph Muller

Taught6

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Mario Capecchi
born 1937
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
John Tooze
born 1938
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Ronald W. Davis
born 1941
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Richard Roberts
born 1943
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Phillip Sharp
born 1944
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Ewan Birney
born 1972

The line above and below1 step

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

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stated by WikidataSalvador Luria

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 34 people: 34 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

1943 to 1947
University of Chicago
studied
1948 to 1950
Indiana University Bloomington
studied
1953 to 1955
California Institute of Technology
worked
1968 to 2007
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
worked
undated
South Shore High School
studied
undated
Harvard University
worked
undated
University of Cambridge
worked
undated
United States National Institutes of Health
worked

At a glance

known as: biologist, geneticist, zoologist, biochemist, molecular biologist, academic, university teacher, chemist, physicist, writer, biophysicist, scientist, Nobel Prize winner
fields: biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, molecular genetics, DNA structure, molecular biochemistry
awards: Copley Medal, 1993, Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1977, Lomonosov Gold Medal, 1994, Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, 1960, Canada Gairdner International Award, 2002, Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 2002, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1962, Guggenheim Fellowship, 1965, Philadelphia Liberty Medal, 2000, National Medal of Science, 1997, John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science, 1971, EMBO Membership, 1985, honorary doctor of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, 2005, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 1981, Mendel Medal, 2000, Masaryk University Gold Medal, 1998, honorary doctor of the Hofstra University, Guggenheim Fellowship, 1983, Othmer Gold Medal, 2005, Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award
member of: Royal Society of London, from 1981, National Academy of Sciences, from 1962, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 1957, Russian Academy of Sciences, from 1988, European Molecular Biology Organization, from 1985, Academia Europaea, from 1998, Royal Irish Academy, from 2005, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, from 1988, Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia, from 2005, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, from 1962
notable works: The Double Helix, Molecular Biology of the Gene
Wikipedia: in 110 languages

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Elsewhere9

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaJames Watson
stated by WikidataWikidataQ83333
stated by WikidataVIAF90069089
stated by WikidataGND118629468
stated by WikidataIdRef027193454
stated by WikidataISNI0000000114514801

papers

OpenAlexA5014257109a checked match
stated by WikidataScopus7404155667
stated by WikidataSemantic Scholar145979193

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@misc{academicancestry_Q83333,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{James Watson: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q83333},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). James Watson: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q83333