Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
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Why is this person notable and influential?Francis Harry Compton Crick was a British molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. In 1953, he co-authored with James Watson the academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. Together with Watson and Maurice Wilkins, he was 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”. The results were based partly on fundamental studies done by Rosalind Franklin, Raymond Gosling and Wilkins.
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What schools is this person affiliated with?University of Cambridge
Collegiate public research university in Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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What contributions to academia has this person made?- What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery