James Michael Creeth | |
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| Born | 3 October 1924 Northampton, Northamptonshire, England |
| Died | 15 January 2010 (aged 85) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University College, Nottingham |
| Known for | DNA hydrogen bonds, Mucus |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biochemistry |
| Institutions | Courtauld Institute of Biochemistry; University of Wisconsin, USA; University of Adelaide, Australia; Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine, London; University of Bristol |
| Doctoral advisor | Denis Oswald Jordan, John Masson Gulland |
James Michael Creeth (3 October 1924 – 15 January 2010) was an English biochemist whose experiments on DNA viscosity confirming the existence of hydrogen bonds between the purine and pyrimidine bases of DNA were crucial to Watson and Crick's discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.