WATSON

Watson, James Watson, James Dewey Watson

(noun) United States geneticist who (with Crick in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1928)

Watson, John Broadus Watson

(noun) United States psychologist considered the founder of behavioristic psychology (1878-1958)

Watson, Thomas Augustus Watson

(noun) United States telephone engineer who assisted Alexander Graham Bell in his experiments (1854-1934)

Source: WordNet® 3.1



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Word of the Day

22 May 2025

BOLLARD

(noun) a strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines); “the road was closed to vehicular traffic with bollards”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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