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Francis Crick

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Francis Crick

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Also known as Francis Harry Compton Crick, Francis H.C. Crick

British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA

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Francis Crick (1916–2004) was a British biologist, geneticist, physicist, and neuroscientist. Born in Northampton, he was educated at University College London and Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, where Max Perutz served as his doctoral advisor. 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, and the Order of Merit. He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He served as a member of the Royal Society, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the French Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among his published works are *The Path to the Double Helix* and *Polypeptides and proteins*. He died of colorectal cancer in La Jolla, San Diego.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1916
Died
2004
Works
15

Top works

  • Double helix 50th anniversary collection
  • THE PATH TO THE DOUBLE HELIX
  • Şaşırtan Varsayım
  • Polypeptides and proteins
  • Crick DNA Story

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1916
Active to
2004

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
11
Total plays
83

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,620x

  2. Guidelines for the Process of Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Self-Report Measures

    · 2000 · cited 10,942x

  3. Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    · 2012 · cited 10,802x

  4. Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid

    · 1953 · cited 10,500x

  5. The Sequence of the Human Genome

    · 2001 · cited 10,205x

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Quotes

  • “The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.”
  • “And so to those of you who may be vitalists I would make this prophecy: what everyone believed yesterday, and you believe today, only cranks will believe tomorrow.”
  • “Big questions get big answers.”
  • “I argued that it was important not to place too much reliance on any single piece of experimental evidence. It might turn out to be misleading, as the 5.1 Å reflection undoubtedly was. Jim was a little more brash, stating that no good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong. A theory that did fit all the data would have been "carpentered" to do so and would thus be open to suspicion. (pp. 59-60)”
  • “Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.”
  • “Both of us had decided, quite independently of each other, that the central problem in molecular biology was the chemical structure of the gene.”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1962

    “for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material”

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Encyclopedic overview

Francis Harry Compton Crick (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. He, James Watson, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins played crucial roles in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule.

Crick and Watson's paper in Nature in 1953 laid the groundwork for understanding DNA structure and functions. Together with Maurice Wilkins, they were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".

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