Francis Crick

Francis Harry Compton Crick was a British biologist, geneticist, physicist, and neuroscientist. He was educated at University College London and Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. His professional career included positions at the University of Cambridge, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and New York University Tandon School of Engineering. He worked in the fields of molecular biology, deoxyribonucleic acid, physics, and neuroscience.

Crick received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, the Order of Merit, and Fellowship in the Royal Society. He was also a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the French Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His notable works include *The Path to the Double Helix* and *Polypeptides and proteins*.

Born in Northampton in 1916, Crick died of colorectal cancer in La Jolla, San Diego, in 2004. He was the student of Max Perutz and Edward Collingwood.