Nobel Laureate, Physiology or Medicine 1962 with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins for, "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"

Born in Chicago, Ill., on April 6th, 1928, as the only son of James D. Watson, a businessman, and Jean Mitchell. His father's ancestors were originally of English descent and had lived in the midwest for several generations.

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The "Founder of Behaviorism", he was professor of psychology at Johns Hopkins University from 1908. He moved into advertising and became the vice president of J Walter Thompson in 1924. He was perhaps the most "influential American psychologist of his generation."

1878 - 1958, born in Greenville, South Carolina to Emma and Pickens Watson.

Mathematican elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1919
Born: 31 Jan 1886 in Westward Ho!, Devon, England
Died: 2 Feb 1965 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England

Prime Minister of Australia 27 Apr 1904 - 17 Aug 1904

At the age of 37, he was the first Labour Prime Minister in the world. He was born in Valparaiso in Chile in 1867 and spent his childhood in New Zealand. At 24 years of age he held the leading position of President of the Trades and Labour Council in Sydney. At Federation in 1901, Watson stood for the new Federal seat of Bland and was elected to the House of Representatives. At the meeting of the new Federal Parliamentary Labor Party, Chris Watson was elected the first leader. He resigned as Labor Party leader in 1907 and remained a Member of the Federal Parliament until 1910. In 1916 Watson, along with Hughes and a number of other Labor Leaders, left the Labor Party over the issue of conscription. He died in Australia in 1941.

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