A Mind at Play

I didn’t like the term Information Theory. Claude didn’t like it either. You see, the term ‘information theory’ suggests that it is a theory about information—but it’s not. It’s the transmission of information, not information. Lots of people just didn’t understand this.

James Watson

James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticistand zoologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick. Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material”.

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