I was born in Nagoya, Japan on September 5th, 1939, the second of three sons. I have also a younger sister. My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan. The company policy made it necessary for my father to…

In 1936, when I was born in the small Silesian village of Waltersdorf in the county of Sprottau in the then eastern part of Germany, now part of Poland, the fine structure of the cell was still an enigma. After 300 years of staring through light microscopes, essentially all that biologists had learned was that…

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“And what have kings that privates have not too,Save ceremony, save general ceremony?” William Shakespeare, in Henry the Fifth, IV. 1, 243-244 My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank…

I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect. He was the eighth of ten children of Franz Volhard, a professor of medicine in Frankfurt, and specialist for heart and kidney. My mother’s mother, Lies Haas-Möllmann, was a painter but had…

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Links to other sites Video Interview with Francis Crick and James Watson at the UT Southwestern Medical Center, November 2013.

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Links to other sites Videos James Watson: ‘How we discovered DNA’ from TED Talks. Interview with James Watson and Francis Crick at the UT Southwestern Medical Center, November 2013.