Francis Crick

Professor Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM FRS (8 June, 1916 – 28 July, 2004) was a British physicist, molecular biologist and neuroscientist, most noted for being one of the co-

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discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953, for which he, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

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Born in Northamptonshire, England as a son of Harry and Anne Elisabeth Crick (nee Wilkins), he studied physics at University College London, and obtained a B.Sc. in 1937. During World War II, he worked on the design of magnetic and acoustic mines. He began studying biology in 1947 after the war's end.

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