James D. Watson

Currently, Watson gives public speeches and serves as chancellor of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Pierce appointed the following Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States:. In 1994, Watson gave up his position of director and became president of the CSHL for ten years.
. He has also repeatedly said in public lectures "that if the gene (for homosexuality) were discovered and a woman decided not to give birth to a child that may have a tendency to become homosexual, she should be able to abort the fetus." [[1]]. Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, New Hampshire, is named after Pierce, as is the Franklin Pierce School District in Tacoma, Washington, and the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire. His views on these matters are covered in some depth in his book DNA: The Secret of Life (2003), particularly in chapter 6. Franklin Pierce died in Concord, New Hampshire at 4:40 in the morning of October 8, 1869, from cirrhosis of the liver, and was interred in Minat Inclosure in the Old North Cemetery.

He is for instance a strong proponent of genetically modified crops, holding that the benefits far outweigh any plausible environmental dangers, and that many of the arguments against GM crops are unscientific or irrational. One the few friends to stick by Pierce was his college friend and biographer, Nathaniel Hawthorne. He has been considered to hold a number of controversial views. During the Civil War, Pierce further damaged his reputation by declaring support for the Confederacy, headed by his old cabinet member Davis. Like his late colleague, Francis Crick, Watson is an outspoken atheist, known for his frank opinions on politics, religion, and the role of science in society. After losing the Democratic nomination, Pierce reportedly quipped "there's nothing left to do but get drunk" (quoted also as "after the White House what is there to do but drink?") which he apparently did frequently, once running down an elderly woman while driving a carriage drunk. In 1988, Watson's achievement and success led to his appointment as the Head of the Human Genome Project at the National Institutes of Health, a position he held until 1992, when he was fired due to unethical scientific practices. Meanwhile, Pierce lost all credibility he may have had in the North and was not renominated.

All the textbooks are still in print. The election of Republican Abraham Lincoln would provoke secession in 1861. His third textbook was Recombinant DNA which used the ways in which genetic engineering has brought us so much new information about how organisms function. The passage of Kansas-Nebraska caused widespread outrage in the North and spurred the creation of the Republican Party, a sectional, Northern party which was organized as a direct response to the bill. His next great success was Molecular Biology of the Cell although here his role was more of coordinator of an outstanding group of scientist-writers. Pierce, who had acquired a reputation as untrustworthy and easily manipulable, was persuaded to support Douglas' plan in a closed meeting between Pierce, Douglas, and several southern Senators, with Pierce consulting only Jefferson Davis of his cabinet. Its style has been emulated by almost all succeeding textbooks. Douglas provided in his bills that the residents of the new territories could decide the slavery question for themselves.

In the same way, Watson's first textbook, The Molecular Biology of the Gene set a new standard for textbooks, particularly through the use of concept heads - brief declarative subheadings. Douglas, to win Southern support for the organization of Nebraska, placed in his bill a provision declaring the Missouri Compromise null and void. The Double Helix changed the way the public viewed scientists and the way they work. He purchased the area now comprising southern Arizona and part of southern New Mexico for $10,000,000, commonly known as the Gadsden Purchase. Also in 1968, Watson became the director of the CSHL (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) and made the CSHL his permanent residence in 1974. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, advocate of a southern transcontinental route, had persuaded Pierce to send James Gadsden to Mexico to buy land for a southern railroad. The account is the sometimes painful story of not only the discovery of the structure of DNA, but the personalities, conflicts and controversy surrounding their work. Douglas, allegedly grew out of his desire to promote a railroad from Chicago, Illinois to California through Nebraska.

In 1968 Watson wrote The Double Helix, one of the Modern Library's 100 best non-fiction books. This measure, the handiwork of Senator Stephen A. Watson, Crick, and Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery in 1962. But the most controversial event of Pierce's presidency was the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise and reopened the question of slavery in the West. Building on the X-ray diffraction research of Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, they together deduced the double helix structure of DNA, which they published in the journal Nature on April 25, 1953. seize Cuba by force, and permanently discredited the Democratic Party's expansionist policies, which it had so famously rode to victory in 1844. In 1952, he started at the Cavendish Laboratory, the physics department of the University of Cambridge, where he met Francis Crick. The release of the Ostend Manifesto, signed by several of Pierce's cabinet members, caused outrage with its suggestion that the U.S.

in Zoology at Indiana University at Bloomington in 1950 before heading to Copenhagen for postdoctoral work. Pierce aroused sectional apprehension when he pressured Britain to relinquish its special interests along part of the Central American coast, and even more when he tried to persuade Spain to sell Cuba. He then gained a Ph.D. Many thought that the diverse group would soon break up, but instead it became the only Cabinet that would remain unchanged through a four-year term. After reading Erwin Schrodinger's book What Is Life?, he changed his direction from ornithology to genetics. Pierce selected for his Cabinet not men of similar beliefs but a broad cross-section of people he personally knew. in Zoology in 1947. In his inaugural address, he proclaimed an era of peace and prosperity at home and vigor in relations with other nations, saying that the United States might have to acquire additional possessions for the sake of its own security and would not be deterred by "any timid forebodings of evil." For religous reasons he chose to affirm, rather then swear, the presidential oath of office, becoming the first and only president to do so.

Thanks to the liberal policy of Robert Hutchins, he enrolled at the age of 15 at the University of Chicago, and earned a B.Sc. Grief-stricken, Pierce entered the presidency nervously exhausted. At the age of 12, he starred on the Quiz Kids, a popular radio show that challenged precocious youngsters to answer difficult questions. Pierce and his wife survived and were merely shaken up, but they watched as their 11-year-old son Benjamin ("Bennie") was crushed to death in the train disaster. Born in Chicago, he has been fascinated by birds since he was a child due to the influence of his father. Two months before he took office, shortly after boarding a train in Boston, president-elect Pierce and his family were trapped in a derailed car when it rolled over an embankment near Andover, Massachusetts. James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is one of the discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule. Pierce served as president from March 4, 1853, to March 4, 1857.

Watson and Andrew Berry, DNA: The Secret of Life, Random House, April, 2003, hardcover, 464 pages, ISBN 0375415467. In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act divided the Whigs, with the Northern Whigs deeply opposed, resulting in a split between former Whigs, some of whom joined the anti-immigration American Party (Know-Nothings), others the Constitutional Union Party, and still others the newly formed Republicans. James D. The election of 1852 would be the last presidential contest in which the Whigs would field a candidate. Watson, Genes, Girls, and Gamow: After the Double Helix, Random House, January, 2002, hardcover, 259 pages, ISBN 0375412832. Hale, who like Pierce was from New Hampshire, was the nominee of the remnants of the Free Soil Party, garnering 155,825 votes (5 percent of the total). James D. John P.

Watson, The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, Atheneum, 1980, ISBN 0689706022 (first published in 1968). Pierce won 27 of the 31 states, including Scott's home state of Virginia. James D. The total popular vote was 1,601,274 to 1,386,580, or 50.9 percent to 44.1 percent. "Letters to Nature: Molecular structure of Nucleic Acid." Nature 171, 737–738 (1953). This proved to be true, as Scott lost every state except Kentucky, Tennessee, Massachusetts, and Vermont. Crick. Polk in the 1844 election).

Watson and Francis H. The Democrats' slogan was "We Polked you in 1844; we shall Pierce you in 1852!" (a reference to the victory of James K. James D. Scott's advantage as a known war hero was countered by Pierce's service in the same war. Pierce's likeable personality, plus his helpful obscurity and lack of strongly held positions, helped him prevail over Scott, whose anti-slavery views hurt him in the South. The Whigs' platform was almost indistinguishable from that of the Democrats, reducing the campaign to a contest between the personalities of the two candidates and helping to drive down the turnout rates in the election to their lowest level since 1836.

Pierce easily prevailed as Scott—nicknamed "Old Fuss and Feathers"—ran a blundering campaign. Pierce's opponent was the Whig candidate, General Winfield Scott of Virginia, whom Pierce served under during the Mexican-American War, and his running mate, Senator (and later Governor) William Alexander Graham of North Carolina. King of Alabama was chosen as the nominee for Vice President. Senator William R.

Pierce was nominated unanimously on the 49th ballot on June 5. He also had served in the Mexican-American War, which allowed the party to portray him as a war hero. He had never fully articulated his views on slavery, which allowed him to be acceptable to all factions. On the 35th ballot, Pierce was put forth as a compromise candidate.

When the balloting for president began, the four candidates deadlocked, with no candidate reaching even a simple majority, much less the required supermajority of two-thirds. Prior to the vote to determine the nominee, a party platform was adopted, opposing any further "agitation" over the slavery issue and supporting the Compromise of 1850 in an effort to unite the various Democratic factions. Most of those who had left the party with Martin Van Buren to form the Free Soil Party had returned. Douglas, William Marcy, James Buchanan and Lewis Cass—for the nomination.

The convention assembled on June 12 in Baltimore, Maryland, with four competing contenders—Stephen A. The Democratic Party nominated Pierce as a "dark horse" candidate during the Democratic National Convention of 1852. Benjamin "Bennie" Pierce (1841–1853) died in a tragic railway accident at the age of 12. (1836) in infancy and Frank Robert Pierce (1839–1843) at the age of four from epidemic typhus.

Two died in childhood—Franklin Pierce, Jr. They had three children. Pierce hated life in Washington, D.C., and encouraged Pierce to resign his Senate seat and return to New Hampshire, which he did in 1841. Mrs.

She came from a aristocratic Whig family, and was extremely shy, deeply religious, often ill, and pro-temperance. Appleton, who was born in 1806 and died in 1863, was Pierce's opposite. On November 19, 1834, Pierce married Jane Means Appleton, the daughter of a former president of Bowdoin College. He was a member of the New Hampshire State constitutional convention in 1850 and served as its president.

He served in the Mexican-American War as a colonel and brigadier general. He was district attorney for New Hampshire, and declined the appointment as Attorney General of the United States tendered by President James Polk. After his service in the Senate, Pierce resumed the practice of law in Concord. Senate Committee on Pensions during the 26th Congress.

He was chairman of the U.S. He was elected by the New Hampshire General Court as a Democrat to the United States Senate, serving from March 4, 1837, to February 28, 1842, when he resigned. At the time he was only 27 years old, the youngest representative at the time. Pierce was elected as a Democrat to the 23rd and 24th Congresses(March 4, 1833–March 3, 1837).

He served in the House from 1829 to 1833, and as Speaker from 1832 to 1833. Pierce began his political career in 1828, when he was elected to the lower house of the New Hampshire General Court, the New Hampshire House of Representatives. He was admitted to the bar and began a law practice in Concord, New Hampshire, in 1827. After graduation, in 1826 he entered a law school in Northampton, Massachusetts, studying under Governor Levi Woodbury and later Judges Samuel Howe and Edmund Parker in Amherst, New Hampshire.

In his second year of college, his grades were the lowest in his class; he changed his habits and graduated in 1824 third in his class. Hale. Prentiss, and his future political rival John P. Stowe, Sargent S.

He also met Calvin E. There he met writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, with whom he formed a lasting friendship, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Later that year he was transferred to Phillips Exeter Academy to prepare for college and later that year entered Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where he participated in literary, political, and debating clubs. Pierce attended school at Hillsborough Center and moved to the Hancock Academy in Hancock at the age of 11; he was transferred to Francestown Academy in spring 1820.

Pierce had six older and two younger siblings, four brothers and three sisters. His mother was Anna Kendrick. Pierce's father was Benjamin Pierce, a frontier farmer who became a Revolutionary War soldier, state militia general, and two-time governor of New Hampshire. The site of his birth is now under Lake Franklin Pierce.

Pierce was born in 1804 in a log cabin near Hillsborough, New Hampshire, part of the Transcendental Generation. . In addition, Pierce was hounded by guilt, temptation, and just plain bad luck.". And yet he was a timid man with a shallow, rigid, old-fashioned mind which could not cope with a changing America.

And he was genuinely religious. He was one of the most popular men in New Hampshire, polite and thoughtful, easy and good at the political game, charming and fine and handsome. To his credit, he loved his wife and reshaped himself so that he could put up with her aristocratic, nervous ways and show her true affection. Kunhardt wrote in The American President what many historians believe about Pierce: that he was "a good man who didn't understand his own shortcomings.

He died in 1869 from cirrhosis. He destroyed his reputation by declaring support for the Confederacy during the Civil War. After losing the Democratic nomination, Pierce continued his lifelong struggle with alcoholism as his marriage to Jane Means Appleton Pierce fell apart. Abandoned by his own party, he was not renominated at the 1856 presidential election, and was replaced by James Buchanan.

Pierce's credibility was further damaged when several of his foreign ministers issued the Ostend Manifesto. Pierce's popularity in the North went down sharply after he came out in favor of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, repealing the Missouri Compromise and reopening the question of the expansion of slavery in the West. history. His good looks and inoffensive personality caused him to make many friends, but he did not do what was necessary to avoid the impending American Civil War, thus giving him his reputation as one of the worst presidents in U.S.

He became the youngest president up until that time. King won in a landslide, beating Winfield Scott by a 50 to 44 percent margin in the popular vote and 254 to 42 in the electoral vote. In the presidential election, Pierce and his running mate William R. Later, he was nominated for president as a "dark horse" candidate on the 49th ballot at the 1852 Democratic National Convention.

His private law practice in his home state of New Hampshire was so successful that he turned down several important positions. Later, Pierce took part in the Mexican-American War, becoming a brigadier general. House of Representatives and Senate. He was a "doughface" (a Northerner with Southern sympathies) who served in the U.S.

Pierce was a Democrat and the first president to be born in the 19th century. Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804–October 8, 1869) was an American politician and the 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. Signed Kansas-Nebraska Act. John Archibald Campbell - 1853.