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Aug 20, 2024 · Francis Harry Compton Crick (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was a British physicist, molecular biologist and neuroscientist, most noted for being one of the co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953.
[Resist the temptation to] work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking … [Scientists] should heed the saying, “A busy life is a wasted life.” — Francis Crick. As quoted in J. Michael Bishop, How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science (2009), 59.
Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS [3] [4] (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.
Francis Sidney Compton Mackenzie (/ ˈ k ʌ m p t ən /; 4 May 1885 – 17 September 1964), known professionally as Francis Compton and also known as Frank Compton, was an English actor. He appeared in several films and television programmes but was primarily known for his stage performances.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962 was awarded jointly to Francis Harry Compton Crick, James Dewey Watson and Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"
Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature (1981) An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.
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Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA, the biological molecule of hereditary information, and cracked the genetic code by which DNA codes for proteins. For these achievements he won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, with James Watson, and Maurice Wilkins, in 1962.
