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The famous 'unperson'
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Abstract:
The father of sociobiology, Edward Wilson, described him as 'the most unpleasant human being I had ever met'. He was the first living laureate to auction his Nobel Prize. He said that because of some of his views and beliefs, he had become an 'unperson'. 'No one really wants to admit I exist.' 'Because I was an ''unperson'', I was fired from the boards of companies, so I have no income, apart from my academic income.' The 'unperson' is James Dewey Watson. He won the Nobel Prize at the age of 34, for the work he published in 1953, when he was only 25. The 1953 article in Nature, co-authored with Francis Crick, concluded with the famous understatement: 'It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.' Watson died on 6 November 2025 at the age of 97.
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