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James Watson was born on April 6th, 1928 in Chicago, Illionis to the parents of James and Jean Mitchell Watson. Throughout all of his childhood James grew up in Chicago and attended Horace Mann Grammar School for eight years, and South Shore High School for two years. After highschool he received a scholarship to the University of Chicago, and in 1943 he furthered his studies and entered their preliminary four year college. James then went on to receiving his Bachelor’s degree for Zoology in 1947, where his childhood obsession with bird watching turned into a deliberate ambition to learn about genetics. His dream to learn more about genetics became possible when he attended Indiana University in Bloomington to study Zoology and earned his
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