# James Watson on how he discovered DNA

Nobel laureate James Watson opens TED2005 with the frank and funny story of how he and his research partner, Francis Crick, discovered the structure of DNA.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2007
- Runtime: 20 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science, History
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/JamesWatson_2005)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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