Francis Crick was one of the world’s great scientists. He is best known for his work with James Watson, which led to the identification of the structure of DNA in 1953. Their work was based partly on fundamental studies done by Rosalind Franklin, Raymond Gosling, and Maurice Wilkins.
Crick was born on 8th June 1916, in England. He was a British molecular biologist, bio-physicist, and neuroscientist.
A critical influence in Crick’s career was his friendship, beginning in 1951, with James Watson, who was an American molecular biologist, geneticist and zoologist. Together with Watson and Maurice Wilkins, he was jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology, or Medicine.
In 1962, Crick became the director of Cambridge University’s Molecular Biology Laboratory, as well as a non-residential fellow of the Salk Institute in California. In 1964, he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Crick died in the US on 28th July, 2004.
