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  2. The discovery in 1953 of the double helix, the twisted-ladder structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), by James Watson and Francis Crick marked a milestone in the history of science and gave rise to modern molecular biology, which is largely concerned with understanding how genes control the chemical processes within cells.

  3. Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS [1] [2] (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 . Crick and Watson's paper in Nature in 1953 laid the groundwork ...

  4. Many people believe that American biologist James Watson and English physicist Francis Crick discovered DNA in the 1950s. In reality, this is not the case. Rather, DNA was first identified...

  5. www.nature.com › articles › d41586/019/02554-zThe structure of DNA

    Oct 9, 2019 · On 25 April 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick announced 1 in Nature that they “wish to suggest” a structure for DNA. In an article of just over a page, with one diagram (Fig. 1), they...

    • Georgina Ferry
    • 2019
    • Who Was Francis Crick?
    • Early Years
    • DNA Research
    • Later Years and Death

    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 Cambridge Medical Research Council at its Cavendish Laboratory with James D. Watson. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1962 for his work and continued conducting...

    Francis Harry Compton Crick was born on June 8, 1916, in Northampton, England, and was educated at Northampton Grammar School and Mill Hill School in London. He attended University College London, where he studied physics, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1937. He soon began conducting research toward a Ph.D., but, in 1939, his path ...

    Crick found inspiration in something he read from Erwin Schrödinger—"How can the events of space and time which take place within the. . .living organism be accounted for by physics and chemistry?"— and Watson convinced Crick that unlocking the secrets of DNA's structure would both provide the answer to Schrödinger's question and reveal DNA's hered...

    Crick continued to study DNA, and in 1962, he became director of Cambridge University's Molecular Biology Laboratory, as well as a (non-resident) fellow of the Salk Institute in California. A few years later, he wrote Of Molecules and Men, detailing the recent biochemistry revolution that he had helped to usher in. In 1981, Crick wrote Life Itself:...

  6. Franklin’s images allowed James Watson and Francis Crick to create their famous two-strand, or double-helix, model. In 1962 Watson (b. 1928), Crick (1916–2004), and Wilkins (1916–2004) jointly received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their 1953 determination of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).

  7. Nov 24, 2009 · On February 28, 1953, Cambridge University scientists James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick announce that they have determined the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule containing...

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