Francis Harry Compton Crick

Francis Harry Compton Crick, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1916-06-08 in Northampton, United Kingdom

Gender: male

Field: English physicist, molecular biologist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA

Biography

Francis Harry Compton Crick 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.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962

Awarded on: 1962-10-18

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

Affiliations:

  • MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology – Cambridge, United Kingdom
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