United States telephone engineer who assisted Alexander Graham Bell in his experiments (1854-1934)
"Thomas Watson was the telephone operator who famously answered Alexander Graham Bell's test call from across the room."
United States psychologist considered the founder of behavioristic psychology (1878-1958)
"Watson's groundbreaking experiments on conditioning helped establish behaviorism as a dominant school of thought in American psychology."
United States geneticist who (with Crick in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1928)
"James Watson, the American geneticist born in 1928, collaborated with Francis Crick to determine the double-helix structure of DNA."
A northern English and Scottish patronymic surname, from given names.
"After moving to London from his hometown in Yorkshire, James Watson quickly became a familiar face among the local patrons of the pub."
Watson is a surname formed by adding the suffix "-son" to the given name Wat. The name Wat itself is a shortened form of Walter or William.