James D. Watson - Awards and Decorations

Awards and Decorations

  • Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
  • Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences (2001)
  • Charles A. Dana Award
  • Copley Medal of the Royal Society
  • Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry
  • Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • Gairdner Award
  • Heald Award
  • Honorary Fellow, the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution
  • Honorary Knight Commander in the Order of the British Empire K.B.E. (Hon.)
  • John Collins Warren Prize of the Massachusetts General Hospital
  • John J. Carty Award in molecular biology from the National Academy of Sciences
  • Kaul Foundation Award for Excellence
  • Liberty Medal
  • Lomonosov Gold Medal
  • Lotos Club Medal of Merit
  • Mendel Medal
  • National Biotechnology Venture Award
  • National Medal of Science
  • New York Academy of Medicine Award
  • Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • Othmer Medal
  • Presidential Medal of Freedom
  • Research Corporation Prize
  • University of Chicago Alumni Medal
  • University College London Prize
  • University Medal at SUNY Stony Brook
  • Irish America Hall of Fame, inducted March 2011

On October 20, 1962 the award of Nobel prizes to John Kendrew and Max Perutz, and to Crick, Watson, and Wilkins was satirized in a short sketch in the BBC TV programme That Was The Week That Was with the Nobel Prizes being referred to as 'The Alfred Nobel Peace Pools'; in this sketch Watson was called "Little J.D. Watson" and "Who'd have thought he'd ever get the Nobel Prize? Makes you think, doesn't it". The germ of the joke was that Watson was only 25 when he helped discover DNA; much younger than the others.

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