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, …

May 3, 2025 · Francis Crick, British biophysicist who won a share of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

Francis Crick (1916-2004) was one of Britain'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, drawing on the …

Crick was made an F.R.S. in 1959. He was awarded the Prix Charles Leopold Meyer of the French Academy of Sciences in 1961, and the Award of Merit of the Gairdner Foundation in …

Apr 2, 2014 · Biophysicist Francis Crick helped develop radar and magnetic mines during World War II. After the war, he began researching the structure of DNA for the University of …

Jul 28, 2022 · These four scientists—Crick, Franklin, Watson, and Wilkins—codiscovered the double-helix structure of DNA, which formed the basis for modern biotechnology.

Francis Crick played a decisive role in the 1953 discovery of DNA’s double helix structure and its ability to replicate. Crick carried out further highly influential work in genetics, proposing the …

Crick went on to make important contributions to developmental biology and, during the last twenty-five years of his life, to neurobiology. His insights into DNA and the genetic code, …

Jul 29, 2004 · For his work, Crick – a distinguished research professor and former president of the Salk Institute for Biological studies – was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine …

Aug 18, 2004 · Francis Crick, who died on 28 July at the age of 88, was trained as a physicist but became arguably the most influential biologist of the twentieth century. His great curiosity was …