FRANCIS CRICK
Francis Harry Compton Crick
Born 8 June 1916
Weston Favell, Northamptonshire, England
Died 28 July 2004 (aged 88)
San Diego, California, U.S.
Residence UK, U.S.
Nationality British
Field molecular biologist, physicist
Institutions Salk Institute
Alma mater University College London
University of Cambridge
Academic advisor Max Perutz
Notable students none
Known for DNA structure, consciousness
Notable prizes Nobel Prize (1962)
Religious stance None
Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS (8 June 1916 - 28 July 2004), (Ph.D.,
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 1953) was an English molecular biologist,
physicist, and neuroscientist, who is most noted for being one of the co-discoverers
of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. He, James D. Watson, and Maurice
Wilkins were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for
their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its
significance for information transfer in living material".
His later work, until 1977, at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, has not
received as much formal recognition. Crick is widely known for use of the term “central
dogma” to summarize an idea that genetic information flow in cells is
essentially one-way, from DNA to RNA to protein. Crick was an important
theoretical molecular biologist and played an important role in research related
to revealing the genetic code.
During the remainder of his career, he held the post of J.W. Kieckhefer
Distinguished Research Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in
La Jolla, California. His later research centered on theoretical neurobiology
and attempts to advance the scientific study of human consciousness. He remained
in this post until his death; "he was editing a manuscript on his death bed, a
scientist until the bitter end" said his close associate Christof Koch.
Francis Harry Compton Crick
Born 8 June 1916
Weston Favell, Northamptonshire, England
Died 28 July 2004 (aged 88)
San Diego, California, U.S.
Residence UK, U.S.
Nationality British
Field molecular biologist, physicist
Institutions Salk Institute
Alma mater University College London
University of Cambridge
Academic advisor Max Perutz
Notable students none
Known for DNA structure, consciousness
Notable prizes Nobel Prize (1962)
Religious stance None
Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS (8 June 1916 - 28 July 2004), (Ph.D.,
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 1953) was an English molecular biologist,
physicist, and neuroscientist, who is most noted for being one of the co-discoverers
of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. He, James D. Watson, and Maurice
Wilkins were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for
their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its
significance for information transfer in living material".
His later work, until 1977, at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, has not
received as much formal recognition. Crick is widely known for use of the term “central
dogma” to summarize an idea that genetic information flow in cells is
essentially one-way, from DNA to RNA to protein. Crick was an important
theoretical molecular biologist and played an important role in research related
to revealing the genetic code.
During the remainder of his career, he held the post of J.W. Kieckhefer
Distinguished Research Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in
La Jolla, California. His later research centered on theoretical neurobiology
and attempts to advance the scientific study of human consciousness. He remained
in this post until his death; "he was editing a manuscript on his death bed, a
scientist until the bitter end" said his close associate Christof Koch.