Alphabetical Index
Index by Year of Birth
Francis Crick
* 1916 Northampton, England
+ 2004 San Diego, USA
Francis Harry Compton Crick was a British molecular biologist,
biophysicist, and neuroscientist.
He, James Watson, and Rosalind Franklin played crucial roles in
deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule.
Together with Maurice Wilkins, they were 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"
2021 J. Giesen