Francis Crick
8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004
Francis Harry Compton Crick was a British molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist who co-discovered the double helix structure of DNA with James Watson in 1953. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 and later turned to research on consciousness and neuroscience.
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Life events
Francis Crick was born in Weston Favell, near Northampton.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe earned a degree in physics from UCL.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe began doctoral research at Cambridge, where he met James Watson.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWith James Watson he proposed the double helix model of DNA.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe articulated the flow of genetic information from DNA to RNA to protein.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Watson and Maurice Wilkins.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe relocated to California to study neuroscience and the biological basis of consciousness.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgFrancis Crick died of colon cancer at the age of 88.
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