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unusual facts about James D. Watson



Abigail Fallis

The sculpture opening was attended by James Watson, best known as one of the discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin.

Afro Puffs

The original song samples " Love That will not Die", also by Johnny "Guitar" Watson The term that the title refers to is a hairstyle in which the hair is tied into ball-shaped masses at the top or sides of the head.

Alpha Beta Alpha

Alpha Beta Alpha was founded on May 3, 1950 but its roots reach five years earlier on October 30, 1945, to a banquet hosted by Eugene P. Watson on the campus of Northwestern State College of Louisiana, since known as Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

American Airlines Flight 6780

Patterson was returning from meeting Thomas J. Watson of IBM, who had just hired him for a new case on the previous day.

Anderson's salamander

Ambystoma andersoni is named after James Anderson, a herpetologist with the American Museum of Natural History who did extensive fieldwork studying Ambystoma and other herp species in Mexico.

Balmville, New York

Balmville was the birthplace of Air Force General James D. Hughes and General Hughes, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (located only about 17 miles away) continued to live in Balmville with his family for most of his life.

Burl S. Watson

He became President in 1954 and was Chairman of the Board and CEO beginning in 1962, taking the place of W. Alton Jones, who died in the famous plane crash American Airlines Flight 1.

Business process reengineering

Thompson, James D. (1969), Organizations in Action, MacGraw-Hill, New York

Charles Warren Stone

Stone was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lewis F. Watson.

Columbia Heights, Minnesota

James D. La BelleMedal of Honor recipient, was raised and went to school in Columbia Heights.

Customer engineer

Originally simply engineer, those who specialized in servicing IBM equipment in use by its customers were designated customer engineers by Tom Watson circa 1942.

Edward Manukyan

Manukyan has dedicated many of his compositions to scientists, such as biologists James D. Watson, Francis Crick, physicists Steven Weinberg, Richard Feynman, linguist Noam Chomsky and astronomer Victor Ambartsumian.

Edward Watson

Edward B. Watson (1844–1915), 12th Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court

Eugene P. Watson

He was a member of the American Library Association, the Modern Language Association, the Bibliographical Society of America, the Louisiana Historical Association, the Louisiana Chess Association, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Beta Phi Mu, Phi Kappa Rho, and Kappa Delta Pi.

Gemmi Pass

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson cross the pass on their way to Meiringen, where Sherlock Holmes has his famous meeting with Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls.

George Lakoff

I came up with the beginnings of an alternative theory in 1963 and, along with wonderful collaborators like "Haj" Ross and Jim McCawley, developed it through the sixties.

Harry Bartell

As an announcer, he was heard on The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes for several years, interviewing Dr. Watson and segueing into commercials for Petri Wine (he also announced on Silver Theater in the 1940s and on the radio version of Dear Abby from 1960 until 1972).

James D. Jamieson

Jamieson continued his education at the Rockefeller University after receiving his MD (1960), earning his PhD in 1966 and completing his post-doctoral work with Nobel Laureate (1974) George Palade.

James D. Weinrich

Since moving to San Diego, he has taught at San Diego State University, Grossmont College, Miramar College, Southwestern College, San Diego City College, National University and California State University San Marcos.

James D. Zirin

Zirin graduated from Princeton University with honors and received his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School where he was an editor of the Michigan Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif.

James D'Arcy

His first appearances on television were small roles in the TV series Silent Witness (1996) and Dalziel and Pascoe (1996), followed by roles in TV film such as Nicholas Hawthorne in Ruth Rendell's Bribery and Corruption (1997), Lord Cheshire in The Canterville Ghost (1997) and Jonathan Maybury in The Ice House (1997).

In 2003, he played the role of Barnaby Caspian in the film Dot the I , and the character Jim Caddon in the series P.O.W In 2003, he also gained wider recognition when he portrayed Lt. Tom Pullings in Peter Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.

James d'Avigdor-Goldsmid

In 1968, D'Avigdor-Goldsmid joined the Jockey Club and acted as Steward at several horse race meetings.

James LaBelle

James D. La Belle (1925–1945), United States Marine who received a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service during World War II

James Lynch

James D. Lynch (1839–1872), first African-American Secretary of State of Mississippi

James Phelan

James D. Phelan (1861–1930), American politician; Mayor of San Francisco and U.S. Senator from California

John C. Watson

Watson was born in Frankfort, Kentucky on August 24, 1842, the grandson of renowned Kentucky politician John J. Crittenden.

John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy

The Institute is named after New Jersey Assemblyman John S. Watson, the first African American to serve as the state's Chairman of the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

Lincoln, Alabama

The first graduate of Lincoln High School was the famous Cities Service Company CEO Burl S. Watson, who graduated from LHS in 1912.

Lonely Are the Brave

The Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA gave the film a "Golden Reel Award" for "Best Sound Editing" (Waldon O. Watson, Frank H. Wilkinson, James R. Alexander, James Curtis, Arthur B. Smith), in a tie with Mutiny on the Bounty.

Lotos Club

The Lotos Club issues a Medal of Merit; previous recipients include general David Petraeus, scientist James D. Watson, flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal, and puppeteer Bil Baird.

Michael Creeth

James Michael Creeth (3 October 1924 – 15 January 2010) was an English biochemist whose experiments on DNA viscosity confirming the existence of hydrogen bonds between the purine and pyrimidine bases of DNA were crucial to Watson and Crick's discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.

Michael J. Carberry

Michael J. Carberry was a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 36th District from March 2010, when he was appointed to replace retiring James D. Brosnahan, until January 2011.

Mike Craver

This humoristic song is based on the first words transmitted thru the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas A. Watson.

Paul E. Watson

By 1937 Watson's team had developed a proto-type "Search Light Control Radar" (SCR-270) apparatus and successfully demonstrated it to the Secretary of War at Fort Monmouth.

Robert Savage

Confidence was so high even a press release was being written up in anticipation of an announcement until then Chairman Jim Robinson inexplicably changed his mind.

Roberto Busa

In 1949 he met with Thomas J. Watson, the founder of IBM, and was able to persuade him to sponsor the Index Thomisticus.

Robertson Ridge

It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for James D. Robertson, United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) geophysicist at Byrd Station, 1970-71 season; he participated in the geophysical survey of the Ross Ice Shelf in the 1973-74 and 1974-75 seasons.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Lincoln

On September 14, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI appointed James D. Conley as Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska, succeeding Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz.

Speculative Grammarian

Lingua Pranca includes humorous pieces by several linguists who, 30 years later, have gone on to become well known in the field, including Bernard Comrie, Elan Dresher, Norbert Hornstein, D. Terence Langendoen, James D. McCawley, Ken Miner, Robert L. Rankin, and Leonard Talmy.

The Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership

The Kravis Prize Selection Committee is chaired by Marie-Josée Kravis, and also includes Harry McMahon, Amartya Sen, Lord Jacob Rothschild, Ratan Tata, Surin Pitsuwan and James D. Wolfensohn.

The Telephone Gambit

# The world famous scene in which Bell and Watson make their first telephone call is described in his autobiography by Thomas A. Watson some year's after Bell's death.

Trade Development Bank

The acquisition of TDB by American Express was part of Jim Robinson's plan, who at the time was the chairman of American Express, to break into the private depositor banking industry.

United States Commission on Ocean Policy

The United States Commission on Ocean Policy (sometimes known as the Watkins Commission, after the chairman of the commission during its first gathering, James Watkins) was created by an act of the 106th United States Congress known as the Oceans Act of 2000.

United States v. International Boxing Club of New York

In January 1949 James D. Norris and Arthur Wirtz, who controlled boxing at several major arenas including Madison Square Garden, Chicago Stadium and Detroit Olympia, paid the recently retired Joe Louis $100,000 for four fighters he managed.

Watson family

Family members included Coy Watson Jr., Bobs, Delmar, Harry, Garry Watson, Billy Watson, Vivian, Gloria, and Louise Watson, all of whom acted in motion pictures.

What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery

Crick comments on various aspects of the DNA double helix discovery and gives a qualified endorsement to the 1987 television movie Life Story with Jeff Goldblum as Jim Watson and Tim Piggott-Smith as Francis Crick.

William Allingham

Up the Airy Mountain is the title of a short story by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald.


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