James Watson is a molecular biologist, geneticist, and a zoologist. Watson is famous for co-discovering the helix DNA, with help from Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins. The crew failed with their first attempt at finding the structure of DNA. But the next day they made a ground-breaking discovery. Watson took over directing at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 1968. James Watson spent a good amount of time in Europe. There he studied with Alexander Rich on x-ray diffraction of RNA. Watson ran the Human Genome Project at the National Institutes of Health, from 1988 to 1992. From 1955 to 1956 Watson was writing a paper with Crick on virus construction. Watson was a part of the development of science policy, from the war on cancer. James is the second most famous living scientist.