A scientist whose research in the 1950s was instrumental in determining the double-helix structure of DNA. A colleague of Kay’s in the 1980s, Kay recalls Jim as a highly intelligent and restless man with a vested interest in uncovering the biological and genetic roots of manic-depressive illness and other mood disorders.
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Chapter 11: The Troubled Helix
...the genetic basis of manic-depressive illness with a group of researchers, psychiatrists, geneticists, and biologists—including Jim Watson , a scientist who, in 1953, co-authored an academic paper proposing that DNA had a...
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