{"id":12177,"date":"2025-12-01T08:46:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.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-staging.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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"James Watson: 2007\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P3zRPO57brs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/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":""},"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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12177"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12282,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177\/revisions\/12282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}