{"id":12177,"date":"2025-12-01T08:46:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=12177"},"modified":"2025-12-14T12:19:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T11:19:42","slug":"james-watson-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/james-watson-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"James Watson: 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p data-start=\"753\" data-end=\"1095\">Once again, here is a video that I&#8217;ve rescued from oblivion. This is another video that was located on the old video server that was decommissioned a year or so ago. With days to spare, I had all (I hope) of the videos transferred onto a normal hard disk drive. The server was then scrapped, and the hard drive either erased or destroyed.<\/p>\r\n<p data-start=\"1097\" data-end=\"1414\">During the 2007 year of Imperial&#8217;s centenary, many special lectures were given, and here is a very special one indeed. James Watson (1928\u20132025), along with Francis Crick, is famed for the 1953 proposal of DNA structure. He gave the special centenary lecture entitled <em data-start=\"1364\" data-end=\"1395\">&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/news\/13314\/dna-pioneer-entertains-staff-students-with\/\">Rules for Important Science<\/a>&#8220;<\/em> on 18 June 2007.<\/p>\r\n<p data-start=\"1416\" data-end=\"1542\">The quality of the image is not going to be great, as I&#8217;ve had to convert and enhance it from an old &#8220;RealVideo&#8221; encoded&#8221; video file.<\/p>\r\n<p><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P3zRPO57brs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw December 2025<\/strong><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saved from oblivion is a 2007 special centenary lecture by DNA scientist James Watson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3921,80],"tags":[5022,295175,18469,237],"class_list":["post-12177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-update","category-people","tag-biochemistry","tag-biology","tag-centenary","tag-nobel-prize-winners"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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